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1:1 The word of Jehovah that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri,
 in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah,
 and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
1:2 The beginning of the word of Jehovah through Hosea. And
 Jehovah said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms,
 and children of whoredoms; for the land is entirely given up to
 whoredom, away from Jehovah.
1:3 And he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she
 conceived and bore him a son.
1:4 And Jehovah said unto him, Call his name Jizreel; for yet a
 little, and I will visit the blood of Jizreel upon the house of
 Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to
 cease.
1:5 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will break the
 bow of Israel in the valley of Jizreel.
1:6 And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And he said
 unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah; for I will no more have
 mercy upon the house of Israel, so that I should pardon them.
1:7 But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save
 them by Jehovah their God; and I will not save them by bow, or
 by sword, or by battle, [or] by horses, or by horsemen.
1:8 And she weaned Lo-ruhamah; and she conceived and bore a son;
1:9 and he said, Call his name Lo-ammi; for ye are not my
 people, and I will not be for you.
1:10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the
 sand of the sea which cannot be measured or numbered; and it
 shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said unto
 them, Ye are not my people, it shall be said unto them, Sons of
 the living ∙God.
1:11 And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall
 be gathered together, and they shall appoint themselves one
 head, and shall go up out of the land: for great is the day of
 Jizreel.
2:1 Say unto your brethren Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
2:2 Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not my wife,
 neither am I her husband: and let her put away her whoredoms
 from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
2:3 lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she
 was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her as a dry
 land, and slay her with thirst.
2:4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are
 the children of whoredoms.
2:5 For their mother hath played the harlot; she that conceived
 them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my
 lovers, that give [me] my bread and my water, my wool and my
 flax, mine oil and my drink.
2:6 Therefore behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns; and I
 will fence [her] in with a wall, that she shall not find her
 paths.
2:7 And she shall pursue after her lovers, and shall not
 overtake them; and she shall seek them, and shall not find
 them: and she shall say, I will go and return to my first
 husband, for then was it better with me than now.
2:8 And she did not know that I had given her the corn and the
 new wine and the oil, and had multiplied to her the silver and
 gold, which they employed for Baal.
2:9 Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time
 thereof, and my new wine in its season, and will withdraw my
 wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.
2:10 And now will I discover her impiety in the sight of her
 lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.
2:11 And I will cause all her mirth to cease: her feasts, her
 new moons, and her sabbaths! and all her solemnities.
2:12 And I will make desolate her vine and her fig-tree, whereof
 she hath said, These are my rewards which my lovers have given
 me; and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field
 shall eat them.
2:13 And I will visit upon her the days of the Baals, wherein
 she burned incense to them, and decked herself with her rings
 and jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith
 Jehovah.
2:14 Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the
 wilderness, and speak to her heart.
2:15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the
 valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she shall sing there,
 as in the days of her youth and as in the day when she came up
 out of the land of Egypt.
2:16 And it shall be in that day, saith Jehovah, [that] thou
 shalt call me, My husband, and shalt call me no more, Baali;
2:17 for I will take away the names of the Baals out of her
 mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
2:18 And I will make a covenant for them in that day with the
 beasts of the field, and with the fowl of the heavens, and the
 creeping things of the ground; and I will break bow and sword
 and battle out of the land; and I will make them to lie down
 safely.
2:19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; and I will
 betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in
 loving-kindness, and in mercies;
2:20 and I will betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou
 shalt know Jehovah.
2:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith
 Jehovah, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the
 earth;
2:22 and the earth shall hear the corn, and the new wine, and
 the oil; and they shall hear Jizreel.
2:23 And I will sow her unto me in the land; and I will have
 mercy upon Lo-ruhamah; and I will say to Lo-ammi, Thou art my
 people; and they shall say, My God.
3:1 And Jehovah said unto me, Go again, love a woman beloved of
 a friend, and an adulteress, according to the love of Jehovah
 for the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and
 love raisin-cakes.
3:2 So I bought her to me for fifteen silver [pieces], and for a
 homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley.
3:3 And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou
 shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be [another]
 man's, and I will also be for thee.
3:4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without
 king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without
 statue, and without ephod and teraphim.
3:5 Afterwards shall the children of Israel return, and seek
 Jehovah their God, and David their king; and shall turn with
 fear toward Jehovah and toward his goodness, at the end of the
 days.
4:1 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel; for Jehovah
 hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land; for there
 is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
4:2 Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and
 committing adultery, -- they break out; and blood toucheth
 blood.
4:3 For this shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth
 therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with
 the fowl of the heavens, yea, the fishes of the sea also shall
 be taken away.
4:4 Yet let no man strive, and let no man reprove; for thy
 people are as they that strive with the priest.
4:5 And thou shalt stumble by day; and the prophet also shall
 stumble with thee by night: and I will destroy thy mother.
4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; for thou hast
 rejected knowledge, and I will reject thee, that thou shalt be
 no priest to me; seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God,
 I also will forget thy children.
4:7 As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: I will
 change their glory into shame.
4:8 They eat the sin of my people, and their soul longeth for
 their iniquity.
4:9 And it shall be as the people so the priest; and I will
 visit their ways upon them, and recompense to them their
 doings;
4:10 and they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall commit
 whoredom, and shall not increase: for they have left off taking
 heed to Jehovah.
4:11 Fornication, and wine, and new wine take away the heart.
4:12 My people ask counsel of their stock, and their staff
 declareth unto them; for the spirit of whoredoms causeth [them]
 to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God:
4:13 they sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn
 incense upon the hills, under oak and poplar and terebinth,
 because the shade thereof is good; therefore your daughters
 play the harlot and your