BEFORE CHRIST cir. 785. 8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? 9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealedy till the time of the end. of the times. BEFORE CHRIST cir. 534. 10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; a but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but Zech. 18. 9. the wise shall understand. s ch. 11. 85. a Hos. 14.9. Rev. 9. 20. & 22.11. b ch. 11. 33, 35 John 7. 17. 11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and 2 the abomination that 3 maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety. 31. days. 12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. 13 But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days. HOSE A. 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. THE word of the LORD that came Tunto 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. 2 The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD So ch. 3.1. said to Hosea, & Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath com-mitted great whoredom, departing from the LORD. b Deut. 31. 16. Ps. 73. 27. Jer. 2. 13. Ezek. 23. 3, &c. © 2 Kings 10. 11. 3 Heb. visit. d 2 Kings 15. 10, 12. • 2 Kings 15.29. 4 That is, mercy. 6 Heb. I will not add any more to. 6 Or, that I should altogether pardon them. 3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son. с 4 And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will 3 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: ffor I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away. 7 5 But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and b will not save them by bow, nor by Zech. 4. 6. sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen. g 2 Kings 19.35. & 9. 10. 8 ¶ Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son. & 8.47. & 18.37. 8. 11. 2 Heb. to set up tion, &c. abomina 8 Or, astonisheth. ver. 9. thou, 4 Or, and e Is. 57. 2. Rev. 14. 13. f Pa. 1. 5. BEFORE CHRIST cir. 785. 9 Then said God, Call his name Lo-ammi: for ye are not my people, 5 That is, 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 unto them, 'Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God. 11 n 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. 6 God's judg1 The idolatry of the people. ments against them. 14 His promises of reconciliation with them. Sany unto your bees, Ru-hamal, AY ye unto your brethren, Ammi; 2 Plead with your mother, plead: for a she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her bEzek. 16. sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; 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. HOSEA, III. 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. k 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 m Ezek. 16. husband; for then was it better with me than now. 1 ch. 5. 15. Luke 15. 18. 8. n Is. 1. 3. o Ezek. 16. 17, 18, 19. 4 Heb. new wine. 5 Or, wherewith they made Baal, ch. 8. 4. p ver. 3. • Or, take away. q Ezek. 16. 37. & 23. 29. 7 Heb. folly, or, villany." r Amos 8.10. 8 1 Kings 12. 32. Amos 8. 5. 8 Heb.make desolate. t ver. 5. 13. 4 8 For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, 5 which they prepared for Baal. 9 Therefore will I return, and Ptake 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 naked ness. 7 10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand. 11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. 8 t 12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my Ps. 80. 12, lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. Is. 5. 5. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, "I will hear, saith the LORD, Zech.8.12. I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; 22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel. 23 And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy her that had not obtained mercy; upon and I m will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God. CHAPTER III. 1 By the cxpiation of an adulteress, 4 is shewed the desolation of Israel before their restoration. 2 So I bought her to me for fifteen of grapes. pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an 3half homer of barley: 3 Hcb. 3 And I said unto her, Thou shalt lethech. 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. d 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: е 4 5 Afterwards shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and h David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness 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 exhorted to take warning by Israel's calamity. EAR the word of the LORD, ye Deut. 21. 13. d ch. 10. 3. 4 Heb. a standing, or, pillar, 18. 19. 19. Judg. 17.5. Jer. 50.4,5. or, statue, e Ex. 28. 6. ch. 5. 6. Ezck. 34.23, 24. & 37. 22, 24. God's judgments against BEFORE CHRIST cir. 780. a Is. 1. 18. & 3. 13, 14. Jer. 25. 31. ch. 12. 2. Mic. 6. 2. b Jer. 4. 22. & 5. 4. 2 Heb. bloods. c Jer. 4. 28. & 12. 4. Amos 5. 16. & S. 8. HOSEA, V. hath a 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and 2 blood toucheth blood. 3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the a Zeph. 1.3. field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away. e Deut. 17. 12. f See Jer. 6. 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 fin the 4, 5. & 15. 8. day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will 3 destroy thy mother. 3 Heb. cut off. g Is. 5. 13. 4 Heb. cut off. g 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. 7 As they were increased, so they 11Sam.2.30. sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame. h ch. 13. 6. Mal. 2. 9. Phil. 3. 19. 6 Heb. lift up their h 8 They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their Soul to their iniquity. iniquity. k Is. 24. 2. Jer. 5. 31. 6 Heb. visit upon. 9 And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and 'reward them 7 Heb.cause their doings. to return. 1 Lev. 26.26. Mic. 6. 14. Hag. 1. 6. m Is. 28. 7. See Eccles. 7.7. Hab. 2. 19. o Is. 44. 20. ch. 5. 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. 11 Whoredom and wine and new wine m take away the heart. 12 T My people ask counsel at Jer. 2. 27. 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 and the priests. 15 ¶ Though 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. t BEFORE CHRIST cir. 780. ■ ch. 9. 15. & 12. 11. Amos 4. 4. & 5. 5. t 1 Kings 12. 29. 16 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD ch. 10. 5. will feed them as a lamb in a large place. 17 Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone. 18 Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually : zher 3 rulers with shame do love, Give ye. 19 a The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices. 4 67 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 the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall, fall with them. 66 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. 7 They have dealt treacherously against the LORD for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions. k 8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Beth-aven, " after thee, Benjamin. m 9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be. "Amos 8.14. Zeph. 1. 5. x Jer. 3. 6. &7.24.8.5. Zech. 7. 11. y Matt. 15. 14. 2 Heb. is gone. z Mic. 3. 11. & 7.8. 3 Heb. shields. Ps. 47. 9. a Jer. 4. 11, 12. & 51. 1. b Is. 1. 29. Jer. 2. 26. 10 The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: there- 14. & 27. 17. cir. 760. a ch. 5. 8. 3 Heb. the roof of thy mouth. b Deut. 23. d Pa. 78. 34. ch. 5. 15. e Tit. 1. 16. f 2 Kings 15. 13, 17, 25, Shallum, Menahem, Pekahiah. g ch. 2. 8. & 13. 2. Jer. 13.27. Prov. 22.8. ch. 10.12,13. 4 Or, standing corn. k ch. 7. 9. land of Egypt. 1, 12 Destruction is threatened for their impiety, 5 and idolatry. YET a the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. 2 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee. f с 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 it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. 5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: h how long will it be ere they 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 12 Kings 17. be broken in pieces. 6. m Jer. 22.23. & 48.38. n 2 Kings15. 19. • Jer. 2. 24. cir. 771. p Is. 30. 6. Ezek. 16.33, 34. q Ezek. 16. 37. i 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. k 8 Israel is swallowed up: now 5 Heb.loves. shall they be among the Gentiles m as a vessel wherein is no pleasure. 9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim Phath hired 5 lovers. ch. 10. 10. Or, begin. little while, 7 Or, in a Hag. 2. 6. r Is. 10. 8. n 7 10 Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a ch. 12. 11. little for the burden of the king of princes. Ezek. 26. 7. Dan. 2. 37. t Deut. 4. 6, 8. 4 They shall not offer wine offer-self, but into ings 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 in " the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD? 6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: "Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: 56 the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles. 7 The days of visitation are come, 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. bondage as bad as that. Dan. 1. 8. 2 Kings 17. ch. 11. 11. ch. 3. 4. 6. 1 Jer. 6. 20. ch. 8. 13. Deut. 26. 14. 10 I found Israel like grapes in the 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. 11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception. . Judg. 19. 22. t ch. 8. 13. T. 28. 4. Mic. 7. 1. 15. > Num.25.3. Pa. 106. 23. ch. 4. 14. a Jer. 11. 13. See Judg.6. 32. b Ps. 81. 12. Ezek. 20.8. Amos 4. 5. |