Hosea 10 Cross References - LITV

¹ Israel is a luxuriant vine; he bears fruit for himself. According to the plenty of his fruit he has increased the altars. They have made beautiful images according to the goodness of his land. ² their heart is divided. Now they shall be guilty. He will break down their altars; He will spoil their pillars. ³ For now they shall say, We have no king, because we did not fear Jehovah. What then should a king do for us? ⁴ They have spoken words, swearing falsely to cut a covenant. So judgment springs up like hemlock in the furrows of the field. ⁵ The people of Samaria shall dread because of the calves of Beth-aven. For its people shall mourn over it; also its priests who rejoiced on it for its glory, because it has departed from it. ⁶ It shall also be carried to Assyria, a present to king Jareb. Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel. ⁷ Samaria is cut off; her king is as a bough on the face of the water. ⁸ Also, the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars. And they shall say to the mountains, Cover us! and to the hills, Fall on us! ⁹ O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they stood. The battle against the sons of iniquity did not overtake them in Gibeah. ¹⁰ When I desire, I shall bind them; and the peoples shall be gathered against them, when they bind themselves to their two perversities. ¹¹ And Ephraim is a trained heifer, loving to tread out. But I passed over on the goodness of her neck; I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow; Jacob shall break clods for him. ¹² Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap as mercy. Break up your plowed ground. For it is time to seek Jehovah, until He comes and rains righteousness on you. ¹³ You have plowed wickedness; you have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies because you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men. ¹⁴ And an uproar shall rise up among your peoples. And all your strongholds shall be spoiled, as the ruin of Beth-arbel in the day of battle. The mother was dashed in pieces on her sons. ¹⁵ So He does to you, Bethel, because of your great evil. In the dawn, the king of Israel shall be completely cut off.

¹ You shall not make idols to yourselves; and you shall not set up for yourselves graven images, or a memorial pillar. And you shall not place any stone image in your land, to bow yourselves to it; for I am Jehovah your God.

²³ And they built, they also, high places for themselves, and standing pillars, and Asherahs on every high hill, and under every green tree.

¹ Now I will sing to my Beloved a song of my Beloved concerning His vineyard: My Beloved has a vineyard in a fruitful horn. ² And He dug it, and cleared it of stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in its midst, and also hewed out a wine vat in it. And He waited for it to produce grapes, but it produced rotten grapes. ³ And now, O people of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I ask you, judge between Me and My vineyard. ⁴ What more could have been done to My vineyard that I have not done in it? Who knows? I waited for it to yield grapes, but it yielded rotten grapes. ⁵ And now I will make known to you what I will do then to My vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be burned. I will breach its wall, and it will become a trampling ground. ⁶ And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but briers and thorns shall come up. And I will command the clouds from raining rain on it. ⁷ For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the man of Judah is His delightful plant. And He waited for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, a cry!

²⁸ But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your evil; for according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah.

¹ And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, ² Son of man, how is the vine tree more than any other tree, or than a branch that is among the trees of the forest? ³ Shall wood be taken from it to do work? Or will men take from it for a peg to hang every vessel on it? ⁴ Behold, it is put in the fire for fuel. The fire devours both its ends, and its middle is charred. Will it prosper for work? ⁵ Behold, when it was whole it was not made for work. How much less when the fire has devoured it, and it is charred! Shall it yet be made to work?

⁸ For she did not know that I gave her grain and wine and oil, and I multiplied her silver and the gold they prepared for Baal.

⁴ They have set up kings, but not by Me. They have made rulers, but I did not know. They made idols for themselves with their silver and their gold, so that they may be cut off.

¹¹ Because Ephraim has made many altars to sin, they are altars to him to sin.

⁸ And Ephraim said, I am rich; I have found much wealth for myself. In all my labors they shall find in me no iniquity that is sin.

¹¹ Is Gilead evil? Surely they have been vanity. They sacrificed bulls in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field.

² And now they sin more and more, and they have made themselves a molten image of their silver, idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen. They say to them, Let men, those who sacrifice, kiss calves.

⁶ According to their pasture, so they were filled. They were filled, and their heart was lifted up. On account of this they have forgotten Me.

² For Jehovah has turned the glory of Jacob as the glory of Israel. For the plunderers have plundered them and have destroyed their vine branches.

⁵ Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months, even those seventy years, did you truly fast to Me, even to Me? ⁶ And when you ate, and when you drank, was it not for those eating, and for those drinking?

¹ I am the True Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser. ² Every branch in Me not bearing fruit, He takes it away; and each one bearing fruit, He prunes, so that it may bear more fruit. ³ You are already pruned because of the Word which I have spoken to you. ⁴ Remain in Me, and I in you. As the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, unless it remain in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me. ⁵ I am the Vine; you are the branches. He that remains in Me, and I in him, this one bears much fruit. For apart from Me you are not able to do anything. ⁶ Unless one remains in Me, he is cast out as the branch and is dried up; and they gather and throw them into a fire, and they are burned.

⁷ For no one of us lives to himself and no one dies to himself. ⁸ For both if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Then both if we live, and if we die, we are the Lord's.

¹⁶ So as we now know no one according to flesh, but even if we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we no longer know Him so .

²¹ For all seek their own things, not the things of Christ Jesus.

⁴ And they rose early in the morning on the next day; and, behold! Dagon had fallen on its face to the earth before the ark of Jehovah, and the head of Dagon, and the two palms of its hands, were cut off at the threshold. Only the flat part had been left to him.

²¹ And Elijah came near all the people and said, Until when are you limping over two opinions? If Jehovah is God, follow Him; and if Baal, follow him. But the people did not answer him a word.

¹⁸ They do not know, nor discern; for He has smeared their eyes from seeing, their hearts from understanding.

¹³ He shall also break the obelisks of The House of the Sun which is in the land of Egypt; and he shall burn the houses of the gods of the Egyptians with fire.

⁸ Ephraim mixed himself among the peoples. Ephraim is a cake not turned.

⁵ O Samaria, your calf has cast you off. My anger is kindled against them. Until when will they not attain purity? ⁶ For it also came from Israel: The craftsman made it, but it is not God. For the calf of Samaria shall be splinters.

⁵ The people of Samaria shall dread because of the calves of Beth-aven. For its people shall mourn over it; also its priests who rejoiced on it for its glory, because it has departed from it. ⁶ It shall also be carried to Assyria, a present to king Jareb. Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel. ⁷ Samaria is cut off; her king is as a bough on the face of the water. ⁸ Also, the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars. And they shall say to the mountains, Cover us! and to the hills, Fall on us!

¹⁶ Samaria shall be desolate, for she has rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword, their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women shall be ripped up.

¹³ And I also will cut off your graven images and your pillars from your midst. And you shall not any more worship the work of your hands.

⁵ and those bowing to the host of the heavens on the housetops; and those bowing, swearing to Jehovah, also swearing by Malcham,

² And it shall be in that day, I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall be remembered no more, says Jehovah of hosts. And I also will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

²⁴ No one is able to serve two lords; for either he will hate the one, and he will love the other; or he will cleave to the one, and he will despise the other. You are not able to serve God and wealth.

¹³ No servant is able to serve two lords; for either he will hate the one, and he will love the other; or he will cling to one, and he will despise the other. You are unable to serve God and mammon.

¹¹ And because of this, God will send to them a working of error, for them to believe the lie, ¹² that all may be judged, those not believing the truth, but who have delighted in unrighteousness.

⁸ he is a double-souled man, not dependable in all his ways.

⁴ Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whoever, then, purposes to be a friend of the world is shown to be an enemy of God.

¹⁵ Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

¹⁵ I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I would that you were cold, or hot. ¹⁶ So, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I am about to vomit you out of My mouth.

¹⁰ The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the lawmaker from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and the obedience of the peoples to him.

⁴ For the sons of Israel shall stay many days with no king and no ruler, and with no sacrifice, and no pillars, and no ephod or teraphim.

⁷ Samaria is cut off; her king is as a bough on the face of the water.

¹⁵ So He does to you, Bethel, because of your great evil. In the dawn, the king of Israel shall be completely cut off.

⁵ He shall not return to the land of Egypt, but he of Assyria shall be his king, because they refused to return.

¹¹ I gave to you a king in My anger, and took him away in My fury.

⁹ Now why do you cry aloud, an outcry? Is there not a king among you? Has your adviser perished? For pangs have seized you like one giving birth.

¹⁵ But they cried out, Away, Away! Crucify him! Pilate said to them, Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered, We have no king except Caesar.

¹⁸ that there not be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away today from Jehovah our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you today a root that bears gall and wormwood;

³ Shalmaneser the king of Assyria came against him, and Hoshea was a servant to him, and paid him tribute. ⁴ And the king of Assyria found a conspiracy in Hoshea, in that he had sent messengers to So the king of Egypt, and had not offered tribute up to the king of Assyria, as year by year. And the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in a prison.

⁷ For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the man of Judah is His delightful plant. And He waited for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, a cry!

¹³ transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and departing from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and murmuring words of falsehood from the heart. ¹⁴ And justice is driven back; and righteousness stands far off; for truth stumbles in the plaza, and right is not able to enter. ¹⁵ And the truth is lacking; and whoever turns from evil makes himself a prey. And Jehovah saw; and it was evil in His eyes, that there was no justice.

¹³ And he took of the royal seed, and he has cut with him a covenant and has made him enter into an oath. And he took the mighty of the land, ¹⁴ that the kingdom might be low, that it might not lift itself up to keep its covenant, that it might stand. ¹⁵ But he rebelled against him in sending his messengers to Egypt, to give horses and many people to him. Shall he prosper? Shall he who does these things escape? Or shall he break the covenant and be delivered? ¹⁶ As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, Surely, in the place of the king who made him king, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke, there he shall die with him in the midst of Babylon. ¹⁷ And Pharaoh shall not work for him with great army or great company in the war by pouring out mounds and building siege walls to cut off many souls. ¹⁸ And he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant. And, behold, he had given his hand, and he has done all these things. ¹⁹ So the Lord Jehovah says this: As I live, surely My oath that he has despised, and My covenant that he has broken, I will even give it on his head.

² Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and the committing of adultery increase. And blood touches against blood.

⁷ But, like Adam, they have broken the covenant; they have acted like traitors against Me there.

⁷ He abandoned those who turn justice and righteousness into wormwood on the earth.

¹² Shall horses run on the rock? Or will one plow there with oxen? For you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

²³ For I see you being in the gall of bitterness and a bundle of unrighteousness.

³¹ without discernment, perfidious, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful,

³ without natural feeling, unyielding, slanderers, without self-control, savage, haters of good,

¹⁵ watching diligently that not any lack from the grace of God, that "no root of bitterness growing up" may crowd "in on you ", and through this many be defiled; Deut. 29:18

¹⁰ And the third angel trumpeted. And a great burning star, like a lamp, fell out of the heaven. And it fell onto the third part of the rivers, and onto the fountains of waters. ¹¹ And the name of the star is said to be Wormwood. And the third part of the waters became changed into wormwood. And many men died from the waters, because they were bitter.

² And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Bethaven, on the east of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, Go up and spy out the land. And the men went up and spied out Ai.

²⁴ And he said, You have taken my gods which I made, and the priest, and you are leaving, and what more do I have? What is this you say to me, What ails you?

²¹ And she called the child Ichabod, saying, The glory has departed from Israel, because of the taking of the ark of God, and because of her father-in-law and her husband. ²² And she said, The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been taken.

²⁸ And the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Behold your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt! ²⁹ And he set the one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. ³⁰ And this thing became a sin, for the people went before the one, to Dan. ³¹ And he made a house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of people, who were not of the sons of Levi. ³² And Jeroboam made a feast in the eighth month, in the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah; and he offered on the altar, so he did in Bethel, to sacrifice to the calves which he made; and he made stand in Bethel the priests of the high places that he made.

²⁹ Only, from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin, Jehu did not turn from following them, the calves of gold at Bethel, and in Dan.

¹⁶ And they left all the commands of Jehovah their God and made for themselves casted images, two calves, and made an Asherah, and bowed to all the host of the heavens, and served Baal,

⁵ And he caused to cease the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places around Jerusalem, and those burning incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to constellations, and to all the host of the heavens.

¹⁵ And he made stand priests for himself for the high places, and for goats, and for the calves that he made.

⁸ And now you think to be strong against the kingdom of Jehovah in the hand of the sons of David And you are a great host; yea, with you are calves of gold that Jeroboam has made as gods to you.

¹⁵ Israel, though you fornicate, do not let Judah become guilty. And do not come to Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-aven, nor swear, As Jehovah lives.

⁸ Blow a horn in Gibeah, a trumpet in Ramah. Cry aloud, Bethaven; after you, O Benjamin.

¹¹ Ephraim is like a bird; their glory shall fly away, from birth, and from the womb, and from conception.

⁴ I will also stretch out My hand on Judah and on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, the name of the idol worshipers, with the priests;

²⁷ And not only is this dangerous to us, lest our part come to be in contempt, but also the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted nothing, and her majesty is also about to be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships.

¹¹ And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their cargo any more, ¹² cargo of gold, and silver, and of precious stone, and of pearls, and of fine linen, and of purple, and of silk, and of scarlet, and all thyine wood, and every ivory vessel, and every vessel of very precious wood, and of bronze, and of iron, and of marble, ¹³ and cinnamon, and incenses, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine meal, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and of bodies and souls of men. ¹⁴ And the ripe fruits of the lust of your soul went away from you, and all the fat things, and the bright things went away from you, and you will find them no more, not at all. ¹⁵ The merchants of these things, the ones being enriched from her, will stand from afar because of the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning; ¹⁶ and saying, Woe! Woe to the great city having been clothed in linen and purple and scarlet, and having been gilded with gold and precious stone, and pearls! ¹⁷ For in one hour such great wealth was desolated. And every ship-pilot and all company on the ships, and sailors, and as many as work the sea, stood from afar, ¹⁸ and cried out, seeing the smoke of her burning, saying, What is like the great city? ¹⁹ And they threw dust on their heads, and cried out, weeping and mourning, saying, Woe! Woe to the great city, by which all those having ships in the sea were rich, from her costliness, because in one hour she was ruined.

³ Shalmaneser the king of Assyria came against him, and Hoshea was a servant to him, and paid him tribute.

⁷ the steps of his strength shall be hampered; and his own counsel shall tumble him.

²⁹ For they shall be ashamed of the trees which you lusted after; and you shall be ashamed of the gardens that you have chosen.

³ And the stronghold of Pharaoh shall become a shame to you; and relying on the shadow of Egypt shall be a disgrace.

⁹ Those who form a carved image are all of them vanity. And their delights do not profit; and they are their own witnesses. They do not see, nor know, that they may be ashamed. ¹⁰ Who has formed a god, or poured out an image, to no profit? ¹¹ Behold, all his companions shall be ashamed; and the craftsmen, they are from men. They shall assemble, all of them shall stand; they shall dread; they shall be shamed together.

¹⁶ They shall be ashamed, and also are disgraced, all of them. Together they go into disgrace, carvers of images.

¹ Bel has bowed; Nebo stoops; their idols are for the beast, and for the cattle; your things carried are loads; a burden for the weary. ² They stoop; they bow together; they are not able to deliver the burden; and their soul has gone into captivity.

²⁶ As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed. They, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets are ²⁷ saying to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You gave us birth. For they turned their back to Me, and not the face. But in the time of their evil, they will say, Arise, and save us!

³⁶ Why do you go about so much to change your way? You also shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria. ³⁷ Yes, you shall go out from this place, and your hands on your head. For Jehovah has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper by them.

²⁴ For the shameful thing has eaten up the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. ²⁵ We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us. For we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. And we have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God.

²⁴ But they did not listen nor bow their ear. But they walked in their own plans, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.

¹² And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt. And he shall burn them, and take them captive. And he shall adorn himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd covers himself with his robe. And he shall go forth from there in peace. ¹³ He shall also break the obelisks of The House of the Sun which is in the land of Egypt; and he shall burn the houses of the gods of the Egyptians with fire.

¹³ And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of their confidence in Bethel.

³¹ And you will remember your evil ways and your doings that were not good, and you will despise yourselves in your own eyes for your iniquities and for your abominations.

⁸ And he will also bring their gods with their casted images, with silver and gold vessels of their possessions, into exile to Egypt. And for years he will stand away from the king of the north.

⁷ As they were increased, so they sinned against Me. I will change their glory into shame.

¹⁹ The wind binds her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

¹³ When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb. Yet he could not heal you, nor did he cure you of your wound.

⁶ For it also came from Israel: The craftsman made it, but it is not God. For the calf of Samaria shall be splinters.

⁵ He shall not return to the land of Egypt, but he of Assyria shall be his king, because they refused to return. ⁶ And the sword shall grieve in his cities, and shall destroy his bars, and shall consume, because of their own counsels.

¹⁶ And one has kept himself as to the statutes of Omri and all the works of the house of Ahab. And you walk in their counsels, so that I may give you for a horror and her inhabitants for a hissing. And you shall bear the shame of My people.

¹ And it happened after these things, Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard in Jezreel, near the palace of Ahab the king of Samaria.

³ And an angel of Jehovah spoke to Elijah the Tishbite, Rise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, Is it because there is not a God in Israel that you are going to ask of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron?

³⁰ And Hoshea the son of Elah conspired a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and struck him, and killed him, and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

⁴ And the king of Assyria found a conspiracy in Hoshea, in that he had sent messengers to So the king of Egypt, and had not offered tribute up to the king of Assyria, as year by year. And the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in a prison.

³ For now they shall say, We have no king, because we did not fear Jehovah. What then should a king do for us?

¹³ wild waves of the sea foaming up their shames, wandering stars for whom blackness of darkness has been kept forever.

²¹ And I took your sin, the calf which you made, and I burned it with fire, and beat it, grinding it very small until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the torrent that came down out of the mountain.

²⁸ And the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Behold your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt! ²⁹ And he set the one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. ³⁰ And this thing became a sin, for the people went before the one, to Dan.

² And he cried against the altar, by the word of Jehovah, and said, Altar! Altar! So says Jehovah, Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, his name Josiah, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who are burning incense on you, and they shall burn the bones of man on you.

³⁴ And in this thing is the sin of the house of Jeroboam, even to blot it from off the face of the earth.

¹⁶ And He shall give up Israel because of the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned, and that he caused Israel to sin.

¹⁵ And also the altar that was in Bethel. the high place that Jeroboam the son of Nebat had made by which he made Israel to sin, both that altar and the high place he broke down, and burned the high place; he ground it into powder, and burned the Asherah.

¹ And when all this was finished, all Israel who were found went out to the cities of Judah and smashed the standing pillars, and cut down the Asherahs, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah, and Benjamin, and in Ephraim, and Manasseh, even to the end. And all the sons of Israel returned, each to his possession, to their cities.

⁵ And he burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem, ⁶ and in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali, with their tools all around. ⁷ And he broke down the altars and the Asherahs, and he had beaten down the graven images very small; and he had cut down all the images in all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.

¹⁹ And they shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, for fear of Jehovah, and from the glory of His majesty; when He rises up to make the earth quake.

¹³ Thorns and briers shall spring up on the land of My people; even over all the houses of joy in the jubilant city,

¹³ And thorns shall grow in her palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it shall be a home for jackals, a court for daughters of ostriches.

¹³ They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains and burn incense on the hills, under oak and poplar and terebinth, because its shade is good. On account of this, your daughters shall prostitute, and your brides shall commit adultery.

⁶ For, lo, they have gone from destruction. Egypt shall gather them; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess the desirable things of their silver; thorns shall be in their tents.

² their heart is divided. Now they shall be guilty. He will break down their altars; He will spoil their pillars.

⁵ The people of Samaria shall dread because of the calves of Beth-aven. For its people shall mourn over it; also its priests who rejoiced on it for its glory, because it has departed from it.

¹⁴ They who swear by the guilt of Samaria, and say, As your God lives, O Dan! And, As the way of Beer-sheba lives! Even they shall fall, and not rise again.

⁵ All this is against the transgression of Jacob, and against the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Are they not Jerusalem?

¹³ Inhabitant of Lachish, tie the chariot to the stallion; she is the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion, for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.

³⁰ "Then they will begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us! And to the hills, Cover us!" Hosea 10:8

¹⁶ And "they said to the mountains" and to the rocks, "Fall on us," and hide us from the face of the One sitting on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, Hos. 10:8

⁶ And in those days men will seek death, and they will not find it. And they will long to die, yet death will flee from them.

⁵ And Jehovah saw that the evil of man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the day long.

²¹ And Jehovah smelled the soothing fragrance, and Jehovah said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground for the sake of man, because the imagination of the heart of man is evil from his youth. Yea, I will not again smite every living thing as I have done;

²² They were making their hearts merry. And, behold, men of the city, sons of worthless men, went around the house, beating on the door. And they spoke to the old man, the house-master, saying, Bring out the man who has come into your house, and we shall know him. ²³ And the man, the house-master, went out to them and said to them, No, my brothers, please do not do evil, since this man has come into my house; do not do this grave sin. ²⁴ Behold, my daughter, a virgin, and his concubine. Please let me bring them out, and you humble them. And do to them that which is good in your eyes but do not do this wicked thing to this man. ²⁵ And the men were not willing to listen to him, and the man took hold on his concubine and brought her out to them outside. And they knew her, and rolled themselves on her all night, until the morning. And they sent her away at the dawning of the day. ²⁶ And the woman came in at the dawning of the morning, and fell at the door of the man's house where her master was, till it was light. ²⁷ And her master rose up in the morning, and opened the door of the house, and went out to go his way. And behold, the woman, his concubine, had fallen at the door of the house, and her hands were on the threshold. ²⁸ And he said to her, Rise up, and we will go. But there was no answer. And he took her on the ass, and the man rose up and went to his place. ²⁹ And he came to his house, and took the knife and lay hold on his concubine. And he cut her in pieces to her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the borders of Israel. ³⁰ And it was so: all who saw it said, There has never been, and never was seen, a thing like this from the day the sons of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt until this day. Set yourselves on it, take counsel. Then speak.

⁵ And the men of Gibeah rose up against me. And they went around the house against me at night; they had in mind to kill me, and they raped my concubine, and she died.

¹³ And now, give up the men, the worthless sons which are in Gibeah, and we shall put them to death. And we shall consume evil from Israel. But Benjamin was not willing to listen to the voice of their brothers, the sons of Israel. ¹⁴ And the sons of Benjamin were gathered out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle with the sons of Israel.

¹⁷ And the men of Israel numbered themselves, besides Benjamin, four hundred thousand men drawing sword, each of these a man of war. ¹⁸ And they rose up and went up to Bethel and asked of God. And the sons of Israel said, Who shall go up for us at the beginning of the battle with the sons of Benjamin? And Jehovah said, Judah, at the beginning. ¹⁹ And the sons of Israel rose up in the morning and camped against Gibeah. ²⁰ And the men of Israel went to battle with Benjamin; and the men of Israel set themselves in order against them, to battle against Gibeah. ²¹ And the sons of Benjamin came out from Gibeah. And on that day they destroyed twenty two thousand to the earth in Israel. ²² And the people, the men of Israel, made themselves strong, and again set the battle in order in the place where they set themselves on the first day. ²³ And the sons of Israel went up and wept before Jehovah until the evening, and asked of Jehovah, saying, Shall I again draw near to battle with the sons of my brother Benjamin? And Jehovah said, Go up against him. ²⁴ And the sons of Israel drew near to the sons of Benjamin on the second day. ²⁵ And Benjamin came out to meet them from Gibeah on the second day, and again destroyed to the earth eighteen thousand men of the sons of Israel; all these were swordsmen. ²⁶ And all the sons of Israel went up, even all the people, and came to Bethel, and wept. And they sat there before Jehovah, and fasted on that day until the evening, and caused burnt offerings and peace offerings to ascend before Jehovah. ²⁷ And the sons of Israel asked of Jehovah (and the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days, ²⁸ and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron was standing before it in those days) saying, Shall I again go out to battle with the sons of my brother Benjamin, or shall I cease? And Jehovah said, Go up, for tomorrow I will give him into your hand. ²⁹ And Israel set ambushers against Gibeah all around. ³⁰ And the sons of Israel went up against the sons of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in order against Gibeah, as at other times. ³¹ And the sons of Benjamin came out to meet the people. They were drawn away out of the city, and began to strike the people down wounded as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel, and one to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel. ³² And the sons of Benjamin said, They are destroyed before us as at the beginning. But the sons of Israel said, Let us flee and draw them away out of the city, into the highways. ³³ And all the men of Israel rose from their place and set themselves in order at Baal-tamar. And Israel's ambush came out of its place, out of the meadow of Gibeah. ³⁴ And they came in across from Gibeah, ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel. And the battle was heavy. And they did not know that evil was striking against them. ³⁵ And Jehovah struck Benjamin before Israel. And the sons of Israel destroyed twenty five thousand, one hundred men on that day in Benjamin; all these were swordsmen. ³⁶ And the sons of Benjamin saw that they were stricken. And the men of Israel had given place to Benjamin, for they trusted to the ambush which they had set against Gibeah. ³⁷ And the ambush hurried and came against Gibeah, and the ambush drew itself out and struck all of the city by the mouth of the sword. ³⁸ And there was a sign set to the men of Israel with the ambush, to make it great, their causing a rising of smoke to go up from the city. ³⁹ And the men of Israel turned in battle, and Benjamin had begun to strike, causing some to be slain of the men of Israel, about thirty men. For they said, Surely they are stricken down before us, as at the first battle. ⁴⁰ And the rising of smoke began to go up from the city, a pillar. And Benjamin turned around, and, behold, the whole city had gone up toward the heavens. ⁴¹ And the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were troubled. For they had seen that evil had struck them. ⁴² And they turned before the men of Israel toward the way of the wilderness. And the battle followed them. And those who were from the city were destroying them in their midst. ⁴³ They surrounded Benjamin, and they pursued them without rest. And they trod them down until they were opposite Gibeah, at the rising of the sun ⁴⁴ And eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell, all of these mighty men. ⁴⁵ And they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon. And they gleaned five thousand men of them in the highways, and caught them, to Gidom. And they struck two thousand men of them. ⁴⁶ And all the ones of Benjamin who fell were twenty five thousand men drawing the sword on that day; all of these mighty men. ⁴⁷ And six hundred men turned and fled into the wilderness, to the rock of Rimmon. And they lived in the rock of Rimmon four months. ⁴⁸ And the men of Israel turned back to the sons of Benjamin, and struck them by the mouth of the sword, from the entire city to livestock, to all that was found. Also they set fire to all the cities which were found.

⁹ They have deeply corrupted, as in days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity; He will punish their sins.

⁶ I have cut off nations; their towers are ruined. I made their streets waste, so that none passes by. Their cities are laid waste, without a man, there being no inhabitant. ⁷ I said, Surely you will fear Me; you will receive instruction; then her dwelling shall not be cut off, all that I appointed for her. But they rose up early; they corrupted all their doings.

³¹ So you witness to yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets. ³² And you fill up the measure of your fathers.

⁶³ And it shall be, as Jehovah rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Jehovah shall rejoice over you to destroy you, and to lay you waste. And you shall be plucked from the land you are going to possess.

²⁴ and says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Alas! I will be eased of My foes, and avenge Myself of My enemies.

⁶ You have forsaken Me, says Jehovah. You have gone backward, so I will stretch out My hand against you and destroy you; I am weary of repenting.

¹⁶ Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says Jehovah. And they shall fish them. And after this I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them, from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

⁴ So says Jehovah, the God of Israel: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war in your hand, with which you fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall. And I will gather them together in the middle of the city.

¹³ And My anger shall be spent, and I will make My fury rest on them, and I will be eased. And they shall know that I, Jehovah, have spoken in My zeal, in My fulfilling My fury among them.

³⁷ therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you have been pleased, even all whom you have loved, with all whom you have hated, I will even gather them against you from all around, and will uncover your nakedness to them. Yea, they will see all your nakedness.

⁴² So I will make My fury to rest against you, and My jealousy shall depart from you. And I will be quiet and will not be angry more.

⁹ So I have given her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the sons of Assyria on whom she lusted.

⁴⁶ For so says the Lord Jehovah: Bring up on them an assembly, and give them to terror and plunder.

⁹ And it will be, Like people, like priest. And I will visit their ways on them and repay them for their deeds.

¹ Put a horn to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of Jehovah, because they have broken My covenant and have sinned against My law.

¹⁰ Yes, though they have hired among the nations, now I will gather them. And they began to be few, from the burden of the king of rulers.

¹⁰ Be in pain and deliver, daughter of Zion, like one giving birth. For now you shall go out from the city, and you shall live in the field. And you shall come to Babylon. There you shall be snatched back. There Jehovah shall redeem you from the palm of your enemies. ¹¹ Now also many nations are gathered against you, saying, Let her be defiled, and let our eyes look on Zion. ¹² But they do not know the plans of Jehovah, nor do they understand His counsel. For He has gathered them like the sheaf to the threshing floor. ¹³ Rise up and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze, and you shall crush many peoples. And I will devote their gain to Jehovah, and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

² For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem. And the city shall be captured, and the houses plundered, and the women ravished. And half the city shall go into exile and the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. ³ And Jehovah shall go out and fight against those nations, like the day He fought in the day of battle.

⁷ And hearing, the king became angry. And sending his armies, he destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

⁴ You shall not muzzle an ox when he is treading out grain .

⁵ And Jehovah his God gave him into the hand of the king of Syria, and they struck him, and captured from him a great captivity, and brought them to Damascus. And he also was given into the hand of the king of Israel, and he struck him with a great destruction. ⁶ And Pekah the son of Remaliah killed a hundred and twenty thousand in Judah in one day, all sons of valor, because they had forsaken Jehovah, the God of their fathers. ⁷ And Zichri, a mighty one of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the son of the king, and Azrikam the leader of the house, and Elkanah, second to the king. ⁸ And the sons of Israel captured two hundred thousand of their brothers, wives, sons and daughters, and also they seized from them much spoil, and they brought the spoil to Samaria.

²⁴ Does the plowman plow all day to sow? Does he open and break the clods of his ground?

¹¹ Because you rejoice, because you exult, O destroyers of My inheritance, because you are fat like the heifer in grass, and neigh like strong ones,

⁵ For their mother has prostituted herself; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, I will go after my lovers who give my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

¹ And Jehovah said to me, Go again, love a woman loved by a friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of Jehovah toward the sons of Israel, who turn to other gods, and love raisin cakes of grapes.

¹⁶ For Israel rebels, like a rebellious heifer. Now Jehovah will feed them as a lamb in a roomy place.

¹ O Israel, do not rejoice for joy, like the peoples. For you have gone lusting away from your God. You have loved a reward on all threshing-floors of grain.

⁴ I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love. And I was to them as those who lift off the yoke on their jaws; and I gently give food to him.

¹⁸ For such ones do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth speaking and flattering they deceive the hearts of those without guile.

⁶ He shall descend like rain on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth.

⁴ Seek Jehovah and His strength; seek His face without ceasing.

⁵ Those who sow in tears shall reap with joyful shouting. ⁶ Surely he who walks and weeps, bearing a trail of seed, shall come again with joyful shouting, bearing his sheaves.

¹⁸ The wicked makes a deceitful wage, but one sowing righteousness has a reward of truth.

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat its fruit.

⁶ Sow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hand until evening; for you do not know what shall be blessed, this or that; or whether they both shall be good as one.

⁶ And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but briers and thorns shall come up. And I will command the clouds from raining rain on it.

²³ Then He shall give rain for your seed, with which you sow the ground. And the bread of the produce of the earth also shall be fat and plentiful. In that day your livestock shall feed in a pasture made wide.

¹ Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and lean on horses, and trust on chariotry, because it is great; and in horsemen because they are very strong! But they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek Jehovah.

²⁰ blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the foot of the ox and the ass.

³ For I will pour water on a thirsty place, and floods on the dry ground. I will pour My Spirit on your seed, and My blessing on your offspring.

⁸ Drop down from above, O heavens; and let the clouds pour down righteousness. Let the earth open and let salvation bear fruit; and let righteousness sprout together. I, Jehovah have created it.

⁶ Seek Jehovah while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.

³ For so says Jehovah to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and do not sow to the thorns. ⁴ Circumcise yourselves to Jehovah, and take away the foreskin of your heart, O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, that My fury not go forth like fire and burn, so that no one can put it out; because of the evil of your doings.

¹² Then you shall call on Me, and you shall go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. ¹³ And you shall seek and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. ¹⁴ And I will be found by you, says Jehovah. And I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says Jehovah. And I will bring you again into the place from which I sent you into exile, from there.

⁴ In these days, and at that time, the sons of Israel shall come, declares Jehovah, they and the sons of Judah together, going and weeping; they shall go and seek Jehovah their God.

²⁶ And I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. And I will bring down the shower in its season, there shall be showers of blessing.

³ Then we shall know, we who follow on to know Jehovah. His going forth is established as the dawn. And He shall come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain to the earth.

⁷ For they sow the wind, and they reap the whirlwind. He has no stalk; the bud shall make no flour. If it does make it, strangers will swallow it up.

⁶ For this reason, you return to your God; keep mercy and judgment, and wait on your God continually.

⁴ For so says Jehovah to the house of Israel: Seek Me, and live.

⁶ Seek Jehovah, and live, that He not break out like a fire on the house of Joseph, and consume, and no one is putting it out for Bethel.

⁸ He who created the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the deep darkness into the morning, and He darkened the day into night; who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the face of the earth, Jehovah is His name;

¹⁵ Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate. It may be that Jehovah the God of hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

¹ Gather yourselves, even gather, O nation not being longed for; ² before the birth of the decree, the day shall pass like the chaff, yet not before the hot anger of Jehovah comes on you, yet not before the day of the anger of Jehovah comes on you. ³ Seek Jehovah, all the meek of the earth who have done His justice; seek righteousness; seek meekness. It may be you shall be hidden in the day of the anger of Jehovah.

²⁴ Labor to enter in through the narrow gate, for I say to you that many will seek to enter in and will not have strength.

¹⁸ "and also I will pour out My Spirit on My slaves and slave women in those days," and they shall prophesy.

⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God made to grow. ⁷ So as neither he planting is anything, nor he watering, but God making to grow.

¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for the ones making peace.

⁸ As I have seen, the ones who plow iniquity and sow misery reap the same.

¹⁶ The king is not saved by great force; a mighty man is not saved by great strength.

⁷ Behold, the man who did not make God his strength; but he trusted in his many riches; he was strong in his destruction.

¹⁰ Trust not in oppression, and do not be vain in robbery; if riches increase to you, do not set your heart on them.

³¹ and they shall eat of the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own lusts.

¹⁹ The lips of truth are established forever, but a lying tongue is only while I wink.

²⁰ A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; he shall be satisfied with the produce of his lips. ²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat its fruit.

⁵ A false witness shall not be acquitted; yea, a breather of lies shall not escape.

⁸ He who sows injustice will reap evil, and the rod of his wrath shall fail.

¹¹ I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the mighty; nor even bread to the wise; nor even riches to the men of discernment; nor even favor to knowing men. For time and occurrence happen to them all.

³ They make the king glad with their evil, and the rulers with their lies.

¹² Ephraim circles around Me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah still rules with God and is faithful with the saints.

⁷ Do not be deceived, God is not mocked. For whatever a man may sow, that he also will reap. ⁸ For the one sowing to his flesh will reap corruption of the flesh. But the one sowing to the Spirit will reap everlasting life from the Spirit.

¹¹ Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, mother to sons.

⁹ And it happened, in the fourth year of king Hezekiah (it was the seventh year of Hoshea the son of Elah the king of Israel) Shalmaneser the king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it. ¹⁰ And they captured it at the end of three years; in the sixth year of Hezekiah (it was the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Israel) Samaria was conquered;

³³ Have the gods of the nations at all delivered each his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

¹¹ Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by utterly destroying them; and shall you be delivered? ¹² Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden in Telassar? ¹³ Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?

¹⁶ And their children shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be robbed, and their wives raped. ¹⁷ Behold! I stir up the Medes against them, who shall not value silver. And they shall not delight in gold. ¹⁸ And bows shall also smash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare sons.

³ And the fortress shall cease from Ephraim; and the kingdom from Damascus and the rest of Syria. They shall be as the glory of the sons of Israel, declares Jehovah of Hosts.

¹ The burden of the valley of vision: What ails you now, that you have gone up to the housetops? ² Crashings fill the noisy city, the joyous city. Your slain ones are not slain by the sword, nor dead in battle. ³ All your rulers fled together; they were bound without the bow; all found in you were bound together; they have fled from afar. ⁴ On account of this I said, look away from me; I will weep bitterly; do not hurry to comfort me over the ruin of the daughter of my people.

¹⁴ The sinners of Zion are afraid; terror has seized profane ones; who of us shall tarry with consuming fire? Who of us shall tarry with everlasting burnings?

¹⁴ And I will smash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, declares Jehovah; I will not pity nor spare nor have compassion, to keep them from their destruction.

⁴¹ Kerioth is captured, and the strongholds are seized. And the mighty men's hearts in Moab shall be at that day like the heart of a woman in her pangs.

⁸ A lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Jehovah has spoken, who will not prophesy?

⁵ And the Lord Jehovah of hosts is He who touches the earth so that it melts, and all dwelling in it shall mourn. And all of it will rise up like the Nile, and sink down like the Nile of Egypt.

¹⁰ Yet she went into exile; she went into captivity. Also her young ones were dashed to pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honored ones, and all her great ones were bound in chains.

¹² All your fortresses are fig trees with the firstfruits; if they are shaken, then they shall fall on the mouth of the eater.

¹⁰ And he shall scoff against the kings, and officials shall be a scorn to him. He shall scorn every fortress, and he shall heap up dirt and capture it.

¹⁴ But now Jehovah has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, then the glory of Moab will be abased, with all the great host; and the remnant shall be few; small, not mighty.

⁹ And the high places of Isaac shall be desolated, and the holy places of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword. ¹⁰ Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent to Jeroboam, the king of Israel, saying, Amos has plotted against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to endure all his words. ¹¹ For so Amos says: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely go into exile out of his land. ¹² And Amaziah said to Amos, Seer, go! Flee for yourself into the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there. ¹³ But do not again prophesy at Bethel any more, for it is the king's holy place, and it is the royal house. ¹⁴ Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah: I was not a prophet, nor was I a prophet's son, but I was a herdsman and a gatherer from sycamore trees. ¹⁵ And Jehovah took me from behind the flock, and Jehovah said to me, Go, prophesy to My people Israel. ¹⁶ Now, then, hear the word of Jehovah: You say, Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not drop words against the house of Isaac. ¹⁷ So Jehovah says this: Your wife shall be a harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by a line. And you shall die in a defiled land. And Israel shall surely go into exile from his land.

¹³ Then that which is good, has it become death to me? Let it not be! But sin, that it might appear to be sin, having worked out death to me through the good, in order that sin might become excessively sinful through the commandment.