(KJV) Hosea 51

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Judgment on Israel and Judah

[1] Hear ye this, O priests2; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house3 of the king; for4 judgment [is] toward you, because ye have5 been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor6. [2] And the revolters7 are profound8 to make slaughter, though9 I [have been] a rebuker10 of them all. [3] I know11 Ephraim12, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou13 committest whoredom, [and] Israel is defiled. [4] They will not frame their doings14 to turn unto their God: for15 the spirit of whoredoms [is] in the midst of them, and16 they have not known the Lord. [5] And the pride17 of Israel doth testify18 to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in19 their iniquity; Judah20 also shall fall with them. [6] They shall go21 with their flocks and with their herds to seek the Lord; but the22y23 shall not find [him]; he hath withdrawn himself from them. [7] They have dealt24 treacherously against the Lord: for they have begotten25 strange children: now shall a month26 devour them with their portions. [8] Blow27 ye the cornet in Gibeah28, [and] the trumpet in Ramah29: cry aloud [at] Beth–aven30, after31 thee, O Benjamin. [9] Ephraim32 shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have33 I made known that which shall surely be. [10] The princes34 of Judah were like them that remove35 the bound: [therefore] I will pour out my wrath upon them like36 water. [11] Ephraim [is] oppressed37 [and] broken in judgment, because he willingly38 walked after the commandment. [12] Therefore [will] I [be] unto Ephraim as39 a40 moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness41. [13] When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah [saw] his wound42, then went43 Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb44: yet45 could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound. [14] For I [will be] unto Ephraim as a lion46, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, [even] I, will tear47 and go away; I will take away, and none48 shall rescue [him].

[15] [¶]I will go [and] return49 to my place, till50 they acknowledge their offence51, and seek my face: in their52 affliction they will seek me early.

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  1. Hos 5:1, The judgments of God are denounced against the priests, people, and princes, both of Israel and Judah, for their manifold sins; Hos 5:15, An intimation is given of mercy on their repentance. ↩

  2. Hos 4:1, Hos 4:6-7, Hos 6:9; Mal 1:6, Mal 2:1 ↩

  3. Hos 7:3-5; 1Kgs 14:7-16, 1Kgs 21:18-22; 2Chr 21:12-15; Jer 13:18, Jer 22:1-9; Amos 7:9; Mic 3:1, Mic 3:9 ↩

  4. Hos 9:11-17, Hos 10:15, Hos 13:8 ↩

  5. Hos 9:8; Mic 7:2; Hab 1:15-17 ↩

  6. Judg 4:6; Jer 46:18 ↩

  7. Hos 6:9, Hos 9:15; Jer 6:28 ↩

  8. Ps 64:3-6, Ps 140:1-5; Isa 29:15; Jer 11:18-19, Jer 18:18; Luke 22:2-5; Acts 23:12-15 ↩

  9. or, and, etc ↩

  10. Heb. a correction, Hos 6:5; Isa 1:5; Jer 5:3, Jer 25:3-7; Amos 4:6-12; Zeph 3:1-2; Rev 3:19 ↩

  11. Amos 3:2; Heb 4:13; Rev 3:15 ↩

  12. Hos 5:9, Hos 5:11, Hos 5:13, Hos 6:4, Hos 8:11, Hos 12:1, Hos 13:1; Gen 48:19-20; Deut 33:17; Isa 7:5, Isa 7:8-9, Isa 7:17 ↩

  13. Hos 4:17-18; 1Kgs 12:26-33, 1Kgs 14:14-16; Ezek 23:5-21 ↩

  14. Heb. They will not give, Or, their doings will not suffer them. Ps 36:1-4, Ps 78:8; John 3:19-20; 2Thess 2:11-12 ↩

  15. Hos 4:12; Jer 50:38 ↩

  16. Hos 4:1; 1Sam 2:12; Ps 9:10; Jer 9:6, Jer 9:24, Jer 22:15-16, Jer 24:7; John 8:55, John 16:3; 1John 2:3-4 ↩

  17. Hos 7:10; Prov 30:13; Isa 3:9, Isa 9:9-10, Isa 28:1-3 ↩

  18. Isa 44:9, Isa 59:12; Jer 14:7; Matt 23:31; Luke 19:22 ↩

  19. Hos 4:5, Hos 14:1; Prov 11:5, Prov 11:21, Prov 14:32, Prov 24:16; Amos 5:2 ↩

  20. Hos 5:14, Hos 8:14; 2Kgs 17:19-20; Ezek 23:31-35; Amos 2:4-5 ↩

  21. Exod 10:9, Exod 10:24-26; Prov 15:8, Prov 21:27; Jer 7:4; Mic 6:6-7 ↩

  22. Prov 1:28; Isa 1:11-15, Isa 66:3; Jer 11:11; Lam 3:44; Ezek 8:18; Amos 5:21-23; Mic 3:4; John 7:34 ↩

  23. Song 5:6; Luke 5:16 ↩

  24. Hos 6:7; Isa 48:8, Isa 59:13; Jer 3:20, Jer 5:11 ↩

  25. Neh 13:23-24; Ps 144:7, Ps 144:11; Mal 2:11-15 ↩

  26. Ezek 12:28; Zech 11:8 ↩

  27. Hos 8:1; Jer 4:5, Jer 6:1; Joel 2:1, Joel 2:15 ↩

  28. Hos 9:9, Hos 10:9; Judg 19:12-15, Judg 20:4-6; 1Sam 15:34; 2Sam 21:6; Isa 10:29 ↩

  29. 1Sam 7:17, 1Sam 8:4, 1Sam 15:34 ↩

  30. Hos 4:15, Hos 10:5, Hos 10:8; Josh 7:2; 1Kgs 12:29 ↩

  31. Judg 5:14 ↩

  32. Hos 5:12, Hos 5:14, Hos 8:8, Hos 9:11-17, Hos 11:5-6, Hos 13:1-3, Hos 13:15-16; Job 12:14; Isa 28:1-4; Amos 3:14-15, Amos 7:9, Amos 7:17 ↩

  33. Isa 46:10, Isa 48:3, Isa 48:5; Amos 3:7; Zech 1:6; John 16:4 ↩

  34. Hos 5:5 ↩

  35. Deut 19:14, Deut 27:17; 2Kgs 16:7-9; 2Chr 28:16-22; Prov 17:14, Prov 22:28 ↩

  36. Ps 32:6, Ps 88:17, Ps 93:3-4; Matt 7:27; Luke 6:49 ↩

  37. Deut 28:33; 2Kgs 15:16-20, 2Kgs 15:29; Amos 5:11-12 ↩

  38. 1Kgs 12:26-33; Mic 6:16 ↩

  39. Job 13:28; Isa 50:9, Isa 51:8 ↩

  40. Prov 12:4 ↩

  41. or, a worm, Jonah 4:7; Mark 9:44-48 ↩

  42. Jer 30:12, Jer 30:14; Mic 1:9 ↩

  43. Hos 7:11, Hos 10:6, Hos 12:1; 2Kgs 15:19, 2Kgs 15:29, 2Kgs 16:7; 2Chr 28:16-18 ↩

  44. or, to the king of Jareb; or, to the king that should plead ↩

  45. 2Chr 28:20-21; Jer 30:15 ↩

  46. Hos 13:7-8; Job 10:16; Ps 7:2; Lam 3:10; Amos 3:4-8 ↩

  47. Ps 7:2, Ps 50:22; Mic 5:8 ↩

  48. Deut 28:31; Job 10:7; Isa 5:29; Amos 2:14 ↩

  49. Hos 5:6; Exod 25:21-22; 1Kgs 8:10-13; Ps 132:14; Isa 26:21; Ezek 8:6, Ezek 10:4; Ezek 11:23; Mic 1:3 ↩

  50. Hos 14:1-3; Lev 26:40-42; Deut 4:29-31, Deut 30:1-3; 1Kgs 8:47-48; 2Chr 6:36-37; 2Chr 7:14; Neh 1:8-9; Job 33:27; Isa 64:5-9; Jer 3:13, Jer 29:12-14; Jer 31:18-20; Ezek 6:9, Ezek 20:43, Ezek 36:31; Dan 9:4-12 ↩

  51. Heb. be guilty ↩

  52. Judg 4:3, Judg 6:6-7, Judg 10:10-16; 2Chr 33:12-13; Job 27:8-10; Ps 50:15, Ps 78:34; Ps 83:16; Prov 1:27-28, Prov 8:17; Isa 26:9, Isa 26:16; Jer 2:27; Zeph 2:1-3; Luke 13:25 ↩