per: for "yet the end shall be at the 28 Then shall he return into his land with great riches; and his heart shall u ver. 29, 35, be against the holy covenant; and he shall do exploits, and return to his own land. 40. ch. 8. 19. y ver. 22. Fulfilled cir. 169. z ver. 23. a ver. 25. Fulfilled e ch. 8. 11. & 3 Or, cause 29 At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the south; but it shall not be as the former, " or as the latter 30 For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant. 31 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that 2 maketh desolate. 32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he 3 corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know * Heb. 11.35, their God shall be strong, and do exploits. &c. n ch. 12. 10. 1 Pet. 1.7. 4Or, by them. o ch. 8. 17,19 ver. 40. ver. 29. q ver. 16, r ch. 7. 8, 25. & 8. 25. 2 Thess. 2. 4. 33 And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: kyet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days. 34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries. 35 And some of them of understand Rev. 13. 5, 6. ing shall fall, "to try 4 them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: P because it is yet for a time appointed. 8 ch. 8. 11,24, 25. t ch. 9.27. u 1 Tim. 4.3. 2 Is. 14. 13. 2 Thess. 2. 4. 5 Or, But in his stead. 6 Heb. as for the almighty God, in his seat he shall honour, yea, he shall honour a god, whom, &c. 7 Or, munitions. 8 Heb. Mauzzim, or, Gods protectors. 9 Heb.things desired. Is. 44.9. 2 Heb. fortresses of munitions. 3 Heb. u price. y ver. 35. z Is. 21. 1. Zech. 9. 14, a Ezek. 38. 4, 15. Rev. 9. 16. b ver. 10, 22, 4 Or, goodly land, ver.16. 5 Heb. land of delight, or, ornament. c Is. 11. 14. 6 Heb. send forth. 36 And the king I shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished for that that is determined shall be done. Daniel informed of the times. treasures of gold and of silver, and 44 But tidings out of the east and Before CHRIST cir, 534, d Ex. 11.8. Judg. 4. 10. e Ps. 48. 2. ver. 16, 41. 2 Thess. 2. 4. 2 Or, goodly. ƒ2 Thess. 2. 8. Rev.19.20. 1 Michael shall deliver Israel from their times. 21. AND at that time shall a Michaels 26. 20.7 Matt. 24. 21. Rev. 16. 18. c Rom.11.26. Ex. 32. 32. Ps. 56. 8. &. 69. 28. Ezek. 13.9. Luke 4.3. Rev. 3. 10 20. Phil. 5. & 13.8. John 5. 28, 15. 2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. 29. Acts 24. 3 And 8 they that be 4 wise shall shine as the brightness of the firma-Is. 66. 24. ment; and they that turn many to Rom. 9. 21. righteousness as the stars for ever g ch.11.33,35. and ever. 4 Or, Prov. 4. 18. teachers. 4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to n the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. 6 And one said to P the man clothed 37 Neither shall he regard the God of 39 Thus shall he do in the 2 most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for 3 gain. 40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, band shall overflow and pass over. 41 He shall enter also into the 45 glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. 10 Many shall be purified, and 6 ch. 11. 39; made white, and tried; but the 35. John Z. wicked shall do wickedly and none 17. & 8. 47. of the wicked shall understand; & 18. 37. b the wise shall understand. e ch. 8. 11. & 11.31. 11 And from the time that the 8 Heb. to set. daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and up the abo8 the abomination that 9 maketh deso-mination, late set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. 12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. 13 But d go thou thy way till the end be: 2e for thou shalt rest, fand stand in thy lot at the end of the days. o 9 Or, astonisheth. d. ver. 9. 2 Or, and thou, &c. e Is. 57. 2. Rev. 14. 13. if Ps. 1. 5. Before CHRIST cir, 785. a So ch. 3. 1. Deut. 31. 16. P. 73.27. Jer. 2. 13. Ezek. 23. 3, &c. 2 Kings 10. 11. 2 Heb. visit. 42 Kings 15 10, 12. 2 Kings 15. 29. 3 That is, Not having obtained mercy. /2 Kings 17. 6,23 4 Heb. I will not add any more to. 5 Or, that ? should altogether par don them. 2 Kings 19. 35. 4 Zoch. La &9.10 6 That is, Not my people. Gen. 32. 12. Rota.9.27,28. HOSEA. CHAPTER I. 1 Hosea, to shew God's judgment for spiritual whoredom, taketh Gomer, 4 and hath by her Jezreel, 6 Lo-ruhamah, 8 and Lo-ammi. 10 The restoration of Judah and Israel. HE word of the LORD that came Tunto Hoses, 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. 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. 3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son. 4 And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel, for yet a little chile, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, dand will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel. 5 And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel. 6 And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah : for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away. 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, 8 Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son. 9 Then said God, Call his name Lo. ammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God. 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 Rom. 23, unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Yeare the sons of the living God. 26. 1 Pet. 2 10. 7 Or, instead of that. / ch. 2. 21. John 1. 12 1 John 3. 1. 1. 11. 12. 13. Jer. 319. Ezek. 34. 23 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. CHAPTER II 1 The idolatry of the people. • God's judg ments against them. 14 His promise of reconciliabon with them. AY Se unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah. 2 Plead with your mother, plead for she u 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: 3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was 4 born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. 4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the chil dren of boredoms. 5 A 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. 6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and 3 make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. 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. 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. Before cir. 785. ver. 8, 12 Jer. 44 17. Heb. drinks. & Job 3 23 & 19.8 Lam. 3. 7, 9. 3 Heb. wall a wall. m Ezek. 16.8. o Ezek. 16. 9 Therefore will I return, and P takes. 1.3. away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and 17, 18, 19. will recover my wool and my flax giren to cover her nakedness. 10 And now will I discover her 4 Heb. new wine. lewdness in the sight of her lovers, Or, whereand none shall deliver her out of mine hand. with they made Baal, ch. 8. 4. p ver. 3 Or, take away. 9 Ezek. 14. 11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. 12 And I will destroy ber vines. and her fig trees, whereof she hath 37.23.29. said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of or, villany. the field shall eat them. 12 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, 14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilder. ness, and speak comfortably unto her. 15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Áchor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and bas in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. 16 And it shall be at that day, saith the Loup, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali. 17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name. 18 And in that day will I make a d 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 flie down safely. 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, 20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness; and 4 thou shalt know the LORD. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day. A will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall bear the earth; 22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall bear Jezreel. 23 And 41 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 God's judgments against Before CHRIST cir, 785, a ch. 1. 2. b Jer. 3. 20. e Deut. 21. d ch. 10.3. 4 Heb. a standing,or, statue, or, pillur, Is. 19. 19. e Ex. 28. 6. f Judg. 17. 5. g Jer. 50. 4,5. ch. 5. 6. h Jer. 30.9. Ezek. 34. 23, 24. & 37.22, 24. i Is. 22. Jer. 30. 24. Ezek. 38.8, 16. Dan. 2. 28. Mic. 4. 1. cir. 780. a Is.1.18.& 3. 13, 14. Jer. 25. 31. ch. 12. 2. Mic. 6. 2. b Jer. 4.22. & 5. 4. HOSEA, III. HEN said the LORD unto me, "Go Tyet, love a woman beloved of her b friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons 2 of wine. 2 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an 3 half homer of barley: 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. 4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days d without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and with out an ephod, and without fteraphim: 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 good ness in the latter days. CHAPTER IV. 1 God's judgments against the sins of the people, 6 and of the priests, 12 and against their idolatry. 15 Judah is ex horted to take warning by Israel's calamity. HEAR the word of: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor b knowledge of God in the land. the word of the LORD, ye 2 By swearing, and lying, and kil5 Heb.bloods. ling, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and 5 blood toucheth blood. c Jer. 4. 28. & 12.4. Amos 5. 16. & 8.8. d Zeph. 1. 3. e Deut. 17. 12. f See Jer. 6. 4, 5. & 15. 8. 6 Heb.cut off. g Is. 5. 13. 7Heb.cut off. h ch. 13. 6. i1 Sam. 2.30. Mal. 2. 9. Phil. 3. 19. 8 Heb. lift up their soul to their iniquity. k Is. 24. 2. Jer. 5. 31. 9 Heb. visit upon. 2 Heb. cause to return. 1 Lev. 26. 26. Mic. 6. 14. Hag. 1. 6. m Is. 28. 7. See Eccles. 7.7. n Jer. 2. 27. Hab. 2. 19. o Is. 44. 20. ch. 5. 4. 3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and devery 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 Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another for thy people are as they that strive with the priest. 5 Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will 6 destroy thy mother. 68 My people are 7 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. 7h As they were increased, so they sinned against me: itherefore will I change their glory into shame. 8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity. 9 And there shall be, k like people, like priest and I will 9 punish them for their ways, and 2 reward them their doings. 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. 11 Whoredom and wine and new wine m take away the heart. 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. the people, priests, &c. 13 P They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: 9 therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery. 142 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall 3 fall. 15Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, The LORD liveth. 16 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place. 17 Ephraim is joined to idols: y let him alone. 18 Their drink 4 is sour: they have committedwhoredom continually: "her 5 rulers with shame do love, Give ye. 19 The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and b they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices. CHAPTER V. 1 God's judgments against the priests, the people, and the princes of Israel, for their manifold sins, 15 until they repent. Hearken, ye house of Israel; and EAR ye this, O priests; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because aye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. Before CHRIST cir. 780. P Is. 1. 29. & Amos 7. 17. Rom. 1. 28. 2 Or, Shall I not, &c. ver. 1, 6. Or, be punished. sch. 9. 15. & 12.11. Amos 4. 4. & 5, 5. 1 Kings 12. 29. ch. 10.5. u Amos 8. 14. Zeph. 1. 5. x Jer. 3. 6. & 7. 24. & 8. 5. Zech. 7. 11. y Matt. 15. 14. 4 Heb. is gone. z Mic. 3. 11. shields. 12. & 51. 1. a ch. 6. 9. Is. 29. 15. 60r,and, &c. 7 Heb. a cor rection. é Amos 3. 2. 2 And the revolters are b profound to make slaughter, though I have been dEzek. 23. 5, a rebuker of them all. 3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, d thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled. 489 They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD. 5 And ƒthe pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them. 68 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD: but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them. &c. ch. 4. 17. will not give. 8 Heb. They 9 or, Their doings will not suffer them. e ch. 4. 12. f ch. 7. 10. g Prov. 1. 28. is. 1. 15. Jer. 11. 11. Ezek. 8. 18. Mic. 3. 4. John 7. 34. ls. 48.8. 7 They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall iai month devour them with their portions. Jer. 3. 20. & 5. 11. ch. 6.7. Mal. 2. 11. Zech. 11. 8. ch. 8. 1. Joel 2 1. ¿ Is. 10. 30. m Josh. 7.2. 8k Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at mBeth-aven," after thee, O Benjamin. ch. 4. 15. 9 Ephraim shall be desolate in then Judg. 5. 14. day of rebuke: among the tribes of o Deut. 19. Israel have I made known that which 14. & 27. 17. shall surely be. p Deut. 28. 10 The princes of Judah were like 33. them that remove the bound: there-91 Kings 12. 28. Mic. 6. fore I will pour out my wrath upon 16. them like water. r Prov. 12. 4. 11 Ephraim is Poppressed and bro- 20r,a worm. ken in judgment, because he willinglys Jer. 30. 12. walked after 9 the commandment. t2 Kings 15. 12 Therefore will I be unto Ephraim 19. ch. 7. 11. as a moth, and to the house of Judah & 12. 1. ras 2 rottenness. 13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim t to the Assyrian, "and sent 3 to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound. u ch. 10. 6. 3 Or, to the king of Jathe king that should plead. reb or, to An exhortation to repentance. Before CHRIST cir. 780. Lam. 3. 10. ch. 13. 7, 8. ✓ Pr. 50.22. 2 Heb. till they be guilty. 2 Lev. 26. 40, 41. Jer. 29. 12. 13. Ezek. 6.9. & 20. 43. &36. 31. a Ps. 78. 34. cir. 780. a Deut. 32. 39. 1 Sam. 2 6 Job & 18 ch. 5. 14. Jer. 30. 17. el Cor. 15. 4. d Is. 54. 12. e2 Sam.23.4. Pr. 72 6. Job 29. 23. ch. 11. 8. 3 Or, merev. or, kindness. ich. 13. 3. Jer. 1. 10. & 514 / Jer. 23. 29. Heb. 4. 12 • Or, that thy judg ments might be, &c. 1 Sam. 15. 22 Eccles. 5. 1. Mic. 6. & Matt. & 12. 7. 13 HOSEA, VI. 14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him. 15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early. CHAPTER VI. 1 An exhortation to repentance. A complaint of their untowardness and iniquity. NOME, and let us return unto the COLOR, and let me rath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. 2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. 3d Then shall we know, we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth. 40 Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is ías a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. 5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judg ments are as the light that goeth forth. 6 For I desired mercy, and "not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. 7 But they like men Phave transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. 8 Gilead is a city of them that work Ps. 30. 8, iniquity, and is polluted with blood, 9 And as troops of robbers wait for Prov. 21. & Jer. 216, John 17. 3. & Or, like Adam. Job 31. 33. pch. & 1. ch. 3 7. rch. 12. 11. • Or, cunRing for blood. Jer. 11. Beck. 2224 ch. 5. 1,2 ? Heb with one shoulder, or, to Shochem. 1 Or, enot By. 1 Jer. S. 200. wch. 4. 12, 13, 17. det. $1.23 Joel 3. 13. Rev. 14. 15. y P. 126. 1. • Help evils. och & 1.4 6. 10. 3 Hota stropath › Hra may aman, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness. 10 I have seen fan horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is "the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. 11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people. CHAPTER VIL 1 A reproof of manifold sins. 11 God wrath against them for their hypocrity. 7HENI would have healed Israel, W then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit false hood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers 2 spoileth without, ? And they consider not in their hearts at 16 remember all their wick. edness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face. 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. 4/ They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened. 5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of A reproof of manifold sins. kings are fallen there is none 9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth is not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. Before CHRIST cir. 780. 42 Kings 15 10, 14, 25, 30. ils. 64 7. Ps. 106. 25. Ich. 8. 7. 2 Heb. 10 And the pride of Israel testifleth to his face: and "they do not re-sprinkled. turn to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this. meh. 4. 5. 11 Ephraim also is like a silly. 9. 13. dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. 12 When they shall go, 91 will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard. 13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me. och. II. II. p See 2 Kings 15, 19, & 17. 4.ch. & 1. & 9. 3. & 12. 1. Ezek. 12. 12. Lev 2 14. &c. Deut.2. 13, &c. 2 Kings 17. 13, 15. Heb, spod. • Mic. 6. 4. 14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they asserable them-Job 85. ↑, selves for corn and wine, and they 10. P. 7 rebel against me. Si. Jer. 3. 10. Zech. 7. & Or, chat 15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me. 16 They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow : their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt. CHAPTER VIII 1, 12 Destruction is threatened for their impiety, 5 and idolatry. shall come bas an eagle against ET the trumpet to thy mouth. the house of the LoRD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. 24 Israel shall ery unto me, My God, we know thee. 3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. 4/ They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew if not of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. tened. ch. 11. 7. z Pr. 78, 57. y Pa 73 12. zch. §. 3. 6. cir. 760. ach. & K 3 Heb. the roof of thy month. b. Deut. 28. 49. Jer. la Hab 1. M ch. 67. d P. 78. 34. ch. S. 15. • Tit. 1. 16 2 Kings 15 11, 17, 2 Shallum, Menahem, Pekabiah. zeh. 2.8.& 132 A Jer. 13, 27. Prov. 22 A 5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath east thee of mine anger is kindled against then: how long will it be ere they eh. 10. 12. 13. attain to innocency? 6 For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces. 7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal : if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up. Oh, standing cart. & ch. 7. 9. 72 Kings 17. 1 Or. from waking. 10 Yea, though they have hired armong the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes, 11 Because Ephraim hath made 'many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin. 12 I have written to him the great things of tuy law, but they were counted as a strange thing. Israel's distress for their sins. Before CHRIST cir. 760, u Jer. 7. 21. ingsthey, &c. Jer. 14. 10, 12. ch. 5. 6. HOSEA, IX. 13 2 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; y now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt. 14 For Israel hath forgotten b his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but d I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. y ch. 9. 9. Amos 8, 7. z Deut. 28. 68. a Deut. 32. 18. b Is. 29. 23. Eph. 2. 10. d Jer. 17. 27. Amos 2. 5. & 9. 4. Amos 5. 22. ch. 9. 3, 6. & 11. 5. c 1 Kings 12. 31. a ch. 4. 12. & 5. 4, 7. b Jer. 44. 17. ch. 2. 12. 3 Or, in, &c. CHAPTER IX. The distress and captivity of Israel for their sins and idolatry. REJOICE not, Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone c ch. 2. 9, 12. a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved 4 Or, winea breward 3 upon every cornfloor. fat. d Lev. 25. 23. Jer. 2. 7. & 16. 18. e ch. 8. 13. & 11. 5. Not into Egypt itself, but into another bondage as bad as that. Ezek. 4. 13. g2 Kings 17. 6. ch. 11. 11. Dan. 1.8. h ch. 3. 4. 2 Lev. 17. 11. m ch. 2. 11. 2 The floor and the 4 winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. 3 They shall not dwell in d the LORD's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria. 4 h They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: & their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD. 5 What will ye do inthe solemn day, k Deut.26. 14. and in the day of the feast of the LORD? 6 For, lo, they are gone because of 5 destruction: "Egypt shall gather 5 Heb. spoil them up, Memphis shall bury them: 67 the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them. thorns shall be in their tabernacles. n ch. 7. 16. ver. 3. 6 Or, their silver shall be desired, 7 Heb. the desire. 7 The days of visitation are come, thenettle,&c. the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred. o Is. 5. 6. & 32. 13. & 34. 13. ch. 10. 8. 8 Hcb. man of the spirit. p Ezek. 13.3, &c. Mic. 2. 11. Zeph. 3. 4. 7 Jer. 6. 17. & 31. 6. Ezek. 3. 17. & 33. 7. 7 Is. 31. 6. ch. 10. 9. s Judg. 19. 8 The 9 watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred 9 in the house of his God. 9" They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah : ttherefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins. 10 I found Israel like grapes in the 9 Or,against. wilderness; I saw your fathers as "the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time but they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved. 22 t ch. 8. 13. y Num. 25. 3. a Jer. 11. 13. See Judg. 6. 32. b Ps. 81. 12. Ezek. 20. 8. Amos 4. 5. c Job 27. 14. d Deut. 28. 41, 62. e Deut. 31. 17. 2 Kings 17. 18. ch. 5. 6. 11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception. 12 Though they bring up their children, yet d will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yca, woe also to them when I depart from them! 13 Ephraim, & as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer. 14 Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a 2 miscarrying womb and dry breasts. 15 All their wickedness kis in Gilgal for there I hated them: for the f See 1 Sam. 29. 15, 16. g See Ezek. 26, & 27, & 28. h ver. 16. ch.13. 16. Luke 23. 29. 2 Heb. that casteth the fruit. k ch. 4. 15. & 12, 11. 7 ch. 1. 6. Israel's impiety and idolatry. wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters. Before CHRIST cir. 760. n ver. 13. 16 Ephraim is smitten, their root ism Is. 1. 23. dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, 2 Heb. the "though they bring forth, yet will Islay desires. even 2 the beloved fruit of their womb. 17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations. CHAPTER X. Ezek. 24. 21. o Deut. 29. 64, 65. Israel is reproved and threatened for their impiety and idolatry. S SRAEL is a 3 an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself:b according to the multitude of his fruit b he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly 4 images. 2 5 Their heart is ddivided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall 6 break down their altars, he shall spoil their images. 3For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us? 4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up/as hemlock in the furrows of the field. cir. 740. a Nah. 2. 2. 3 Or, a vine emptyingthe fruit which it giveth. ch. 8. 11. & 12. 11. ch. 8. 4. tues, or, standing images. 50r, He hath divided their 4 Heb. stu heart. d 1 Kings 18. 21. Matt. 6. 24. 6 Heb. behead. e ch. 3. 4. & 11. 5. Mic. 4. 9. ver. 7. See Deut. 5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of 8 the calves of h Beth-29. 18. Amos aven: for the people thereof shall 5.7.& 6. 12. Acts 8.23. mourn over it, and 7 the priests thereof Heb. 12. 15. that rejoiced on it, i for the glory there-g1 Kings 12. of, because it is departed from it. 28, 29. ch. 8. 6 It shall be also carried unto As-5, 6. syria for a present to k king Jareb: E-ch. 4. 15. phraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel. 7 m As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon 8 the water. 8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: P the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; 9 and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us. 90 Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: |