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1:1 The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri,
 in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] 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 the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD
 said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and
 children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great
 whoredom, [departing] from the LORD.
1:3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which
 conceived, and bare him a son.
1:4 And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a
 little [while], and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the
 house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house
 of Israel.
1:5 And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the
 bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.
1:6 And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And [God] said
 unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have
 mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them
 away.
1:7 But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save
 them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor
 by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
1:8 Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a
 son.
1:9 Then said [God], Call his name Loammi: for ye [are] not my
 people, and I will not be your [God].
1:10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the
 sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it
 shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said unto
 them, Ye [are] not my people, [there] it shall be said unto
 them, [Ye are] the sons of the living God.
1:11 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel
 be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they
 shall come up out of the land: for great [shall be] the day of
 Jezreel.
2:1 Say ye 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: let her therefore put away her
 whoredoms out of her sight, 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 like a dry
 land, and slay her with thirst.
2:4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they [be]
 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
 make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
2:7 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not
 overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find
 [them]: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first
 husband; for then [was it] better with me than now.
2:8 For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and
 oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, [which] they prepared
 for Baal.
2:9 Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time
 thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my
 wool and my flax [given] to cover her nakedness.
2:10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her
 lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
2:11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days,
 her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
2:12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she
 hath said, These [are] my rewards that 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 Baalim, wherein she
 burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her
 earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and
 forgat me, saith the LORD.
2:14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into
 the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
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 at that day, saith the LORD, [that] thou
 shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.
2:17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth,
 and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
2:18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the
 beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and [with]
 the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and
 the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them
 to lie down safely.
2:19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will
 betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in
 lovingkindness, and in mercies.
2:20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou
 shalt know the LORD.
2:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith
 the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the
 earth;
2:22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the
 oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.
2:23 And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have
 mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to
 [them which were] not my people, Thou [art] my people; and they
 shall say, [Thou art] my God.
3:1 Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of
 [her] friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the
 LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and
 love flagons of wine.
3:2 So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and
 [for] an homer of barley, and an 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 for [another]
 man: so [will] I also [be] for thee.
3:4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a
 king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and
 without an image, and without an ephod, and [without] teraphim:
3:5 Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the
 LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD
 and his goodness in the latter days.
4:1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the
 LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land,
 because [there is] no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in
 the land.
4:2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and
 committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
4:3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth
 therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with
 the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be
 taken away.
4:4 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people
 [are] as they that strive with the priest.
4:5 Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also
 shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy
 mother.
4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou
 hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou
 shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of
 thy God, I will also forget thy children.
4:7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me:
 [therefore] will I change their glory into shame.
4:8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart
 on their iniquity.
4:9 And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will
 punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.
4:10 For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit
 whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to
 take heed to the LORD.
4:11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
4:12 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff
 declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused
 [them] to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their
 God.
4:13 They sacrifice upon the tops of