Daniel informed HOSEA.. of the times, of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain: yet he shall come to his end, and noue shall help 7 And 1 heard the man clothed in nim. linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right CHAP. XII. AND at that time shall Michael hand and his left hand unto heaven, up, the great prince which and sware by him that liveth for standeth for the children of thy people; ever, that it shall be for a time, times, and there shall be a time of trouble, and a half; and when be shall have such as never was since there was a accomplished to scatter the power of nation, even to that same time; and at the holy people, all these things shal that time thy people shall be deliver-be finished. ed, every one that shall be found written in the book. 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. 3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. 8 And 1 heard, but I understood not: then said 1, 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 sealed till the time of the end. 10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. 4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the 11 And from the time that the daily time of the end: many shall run to sacrifice shall be taken away, and the and fro, and knowledge shall be in-abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hun creased. 5 T Then I Daniel looked, and, be-dred and ninety days. hold, there stood other two, the one 12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and on this side of the bank of the river, cometh to the thousand three hundred and the other on that side of the bank and five and thirty days. of the river 13 But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in 6 And one said to the man clothed THE CHAP. I T HOSEЛ. HE word of the LORD that came unto Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judali, aud in the days of Jeroboain the son of Joash, king of Israel. 2 The beginning of the word of the Lond by Hosea. And the Lond said lo Hosea, Go take unto thee a wife of whoredoms, and children of whore loms: for the land bath committed great whoredoms, departing from the LORD. 3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son. to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel. 6. And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Isra el in the valley of Jezreel. 6 T 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 Lond their God, and will uot save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen. 8 T Now when she had weaned Loruhamah, she conceived and bare a And the Lord said unto bim, Callson. kis name Jezreel; for yet a little while,| 9 Then said God, Call his name Lo and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel[ammi: for ye are not my people, and upon the house of Jehu, and will cause I will not be your God. Punishments CHAP. 11. for idolatry. 10 ¶ Yet the number of the children, cease, her feast-days, her new moons, of Israel shall be as the sand of the and her sabbaths, and all her solemn sea, which cannot be measured nor feasts. numbered; and it shall come to pass, 12 And I will destroy her vines and that in the place where it was said her fig-trees, whereof she hath said. unto them, Ye are not my people, These are my rewards that my lovers there it shall be said unto them, Ye are have given me; and I will make them the sons of the living God. a forest, and the beasts of the field 11 Then shall the children of Judah|shall eat them. 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. CHAP. II. SAY ye unto your brethren, Ammi; 13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, aud she decked herself with her ear-rings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat ine, saith the Lord. 14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, 2 Plead with your mother, plead: for and speak comfortably unto her. she is not my wife, neither am I her 15 And I will give her her vineyards husband let her therefore put away from thence, and the valley of Achor her whoredoms out of her sight, and for a door of hope: and she shall sing her adulteries from between her there, as in the days of her youth,and breasts; as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. 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. 4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms. 6 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. 16 And it shall be at that day, Baith the LonD,that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali. 17 For I will take away the names of Baalin out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name. 18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely. 6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorus, and make a wall, that she shall not find her 19 And I will betroth thee unto me paths for ever; yea, 1 will betroth thee unto 7 And she shall follow after her lovme in righteousness, and in judgment, ers, but she shall not overtake them; and in loving-kindness, and in merand she shall seek them, but shall not}cies. find them: then shall she say, I will 20 I will even betroth thee unto me go and return to my first husband; for in faithfulness: and thou shalt know Then was it better with me than now, the Lond. 8 For she did not know that I gave 21 And it shall come to pass in that her corn, and wine, and oil, and mu]-[day, I will hear,saith the Loud, I wit tiplied her silver and gold, which they hear the heavens, and they shall hear prepared for Baal. the earth. 22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel, 9 Therefore wiil I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and I will recover my wool and my 23 And I will sow her unto me m flax given to cover her nakedness. the earth; and I will have mercy upon 10 And now will I discover her lewd-her that had not obtained mercy ; and ness in the sight of her lovers, and [1 will say to them which were not my none shall deliver her out of my hand. people, Thou art my people; and they 11 I will also cause all her mirth to shall say, Thou art my God God's judgments CHAP. III. HOSEA. against the people. and they set their heart on their ini THEN said the LORD one offer quit yet, love a woman beloved of her 9 And there shall be, like people, friend, yet an adultress, according to like priest: and I will punish them the love of the Lono toward the chil-for their ways, and reward them their dren of Israel, who look to other gods, doings. and love flagons of wine. 2 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, aud for a homer of barley, and a 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. 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 Lond. 11 Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take away the heart. 12 ¶ My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto For the children of Israel shall them: for the spirit of whoredoms abide many days without a king, and hath caused them to err,and they have without a prince, and without a sacri-gone a whoring from under their God. fice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and withom teraphim : 5 Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Load their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and bus goodness in the latter days. CHAP. IV. 13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains,and burn inceuse upon the hills, under oaks, and poplars, and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery. 14 I will not punish your daughters. EAR the word of the Lond, yel whenthey commit whoredom,nor your bath a controversy with the inhabit-for themselves are separated withi auts of the land, because there is no whores, and they sacrifice with hartruth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of lots: therefore the people that doth God in the land. not understand shall fall. 2 By swearmg,and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. 3 Therefore shall the land mouru, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven: yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away. 4 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 destroy thy mother. 15 T 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 16 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the Loup 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: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye. 19 The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices. CHAP. V. 6 My people are destroyed or lack TEAR ye this, O priests; and lackHerken, ye house of Israel; and of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject give ye ear, O house of the king; for 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 sinned against nie; therefore will change their glory into shame. 8 They eat up the sin of my people, judgment is toward you, because ye have been a suare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. 2. And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all. 3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, CHAP. VI, VII. An exhortation 10 repentance. thou committest whoredom, and Isra- jis prepared as the morning: and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the el is defiled. 4 They will not frame their doings latter and former rain unto the earth. to turn unto their God; for the spirit 4 TO Ephraim, what shall I do unto of whoredoms is in the midst of them, thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto and they have not known the LORD. thee? for your goodness is as a morn 6 And the pride of Israel doth testifying cloud, and as the early dew it goeth to his face; therefore shall Israel andļaway. Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah 5 Therefore have 1 hewed them by also small fall with them. the prophets; I have slain them by 6 They shall go with their flocks and the words of my mouth: and thy with their herds to seek the LORD; judgments are as the light that goeth but they shall not find him: he hath forth. withdrawn himself from them. 6 For I desired mercy, and not sacri7 They bave dealt treacherously fice; and the knowledge of God more against the LORD; for they have be-than burnt-offerings. 7 But they like men have transgressgotten strange children; now shall a month devour them with their por-ed the covenant; there have they dealt tions. treacherously against me. 8 Blow ye the cornet iu Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud a Beth-aven, after thee, O Benjamin. 9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be. 8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood. 9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests wurder in the way by consent; for they com mit jewdnesa. 10 1 have seen a horrible thing in 10 The princes of Judah were like the house of Israel: there is the them that remove the bound; there whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is de fore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water. 11 Ephraim is oppressed and brok en in judgment, because be willingly walked after the commandment. 12 Therefore will I be uuto Ephraim filed. 11 Also, O Judah, he bath set a har vest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people. CHAP. VII. HEN I would have healed Is as a moth, and to the house of Judah Wel, then the iniquity of Eph as rottennesa 13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, raim was discovered, and the wickedand Judah sai his wound, then wentness of Samaria: for they commit false Ephraim to the Assyrian, and seut to hood: and the thief cometh in, and king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, the troop of robbers spoileth with nor cure you of your wound. out. 14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a 2 And they consider not in their tion, and as a young lion to the house hearts that I remember all their wick of Judah: 1, even I, will tear and goedness: now their own doings have away; I will take away, and none beset them about, they are before my shall rescue him. face. 15 TL will go and return to my place, 3 They make the king glad with till they acknowledge their offence, their wickedness, and their princes and seek my face: in their affliction|with their lies. they will seek me early. COME CHAP. VI, YOME, and let us return unto the Lonn: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. 2 Aller two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. 4 They are all adulterers, as an oven beated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneeded the dough, until it be leavened. 5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with botiles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. 6 For they have inade ready their 3. Then shall we know, if we follow heart like an oven, while they lie in on to know the LORD: his going forth wait: their baker sleepeth all the Israelites threatened HOSEA. for their idolatry. night; in the morning it barneth as asthee off: mine anger is kindled against flaming fire. them how long will it be ere they attain to innocency? 7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges: all their kings are fallen: there is none aunong them that calleth unto me. 8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake uot turned. 6 For from Israel was it also: the workinan 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 9 Strangers have devoured his no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal : strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, [if so be it yield, the strangers shall grey hairs are bere and there upon swallow it up. him, yet he knoweth not. 10 And the pride of lsrael testifieth to his face; and they do not return to the Lond their God, nor seek him for all this. 11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. 12 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I[ will chastise them, as their congrega tion hath heard. 13 Wo unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! be cause they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against ine. 14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble them selves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me. 8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel whercin is no pleasure. 9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. 10 Yea, though they have hired among 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 my law, but they were counted as a strange thing. 13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins; they shall return to Egypt. 14 For Israel hath forgotten his Ma 15 Though I have bound and strength.ker, and buildeth temples; and Judah ened their arms, yet do they imagine hath multiplied fenced cities: but I mischief against me. will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. CHAP. IX. 16 They return, but not to the Most High: they are like a deceitful bow Their prices shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt. SET CHAP. VIII. : EJOICE not, O Israel, for joy, as Rother people: for thou hast gone a whoring froin thy God, thou hast loved a reward upɔn every corn-floor. 2 The floor and the wine-press shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. ET the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lond, because they have 3 They shall not dwell in the Loan's transgressed my covenant, and tres-land; but Ephraim shall return to passed against my law. Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria. 2 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we kuow thee. 4 They shall not offer wine-offerings 3 Israel hath cast off the thing that to the Lono, neither shall they be is good: the enemy shall pursue him. pleasing unto him: their sacrifices They have set up kings, but not by shall be unto them as the bread of me: they have made princes, and I mourners; all that eat thereof shall knew it not: of their silver and their be polluted; for their bread for their gold bave they made them idols, that soul shall not come into the house of they may be cut off the LoRo. 5 Thy call, O Samaria, hath cast 6 What will ye do in the solema |