bible-app/Translations/NKJV/NKJV_books/Hosea.json

{
  "Hosea": {
    "1": {
      "1": "The word of the Lord that came to 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": "When the Lord began to speak by Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea:\n“Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry\nAnd children of harlotry,\nFor the land has committed great harlotry\nBy departing from the Lord.”",
      "3": "So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.",
      "4": "Then the Lord said to him:\n“Call his name Jezreel,\nFor in a little while\nI will avenge the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu,\nAnd bring an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.",
      "5": "It shall come to pass in that day\nThat I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.”",
      "6": "And she conceived again and bore a daughter. Then God said to him:\n“Call her name Lo-Ruhamah,\nFor I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel,\nBut I will utterly take them away.",
      "7": "Yet I will have mercy on the house of Judah,\nWill save them by the Lord their God,\nAnd will not save them by bow,\nNor by sword or battle,\nBy horses or horsemen.”",
      "8": "Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived and bore a son.",
      "9": "Then God said:\n“Call his name Lo-Ammi,\nFor you are not My people,\nAnd I will not be your God.",
      "10": "“Yet the number of the children of Israel\nShall be as the sand of the sea,\nWhich cannot be measured or numbered.\nAnd it shall come to pass\nIn the place where it was said to them,\n‘You are not My people,’\nThere it shall be said to them,\n‘You are sons of the living God.’",
      "11": "Then the children of Judah and the children of Israel\nShall be gathered together,\nAnd appoint for themselves one head;\nAnd they shall come up out of the land,\nFor great will be the day of Jezreel!"
    },
    "2": {
      "1": "Say to your brethren, ‘My people,’\nAnd to your sisters, ‘Mercy is shown.’",
      "2": "“Bring charges against your mother, bring charges;\nFor she is not My wife, nor am I her Husband!\nLet her put away her harlotries from her sight,\nAnd her adulteries from between her breasts;",
      "3": "Lest I strip her naked\nAnd expose her, as in the day she was born,\nAnd make her like a wilderness,\nAnd set her like a dry land,\nAnd slay her with thirst.",
      "4": "“I will not have mercy on her children,\nFor they are the children of harlotry.",
      "5": "For their mother has played the harlot;\nShe who conceived them has behaved shamefully.\nFor she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,\nWho give me my bread and my water,\nMy wool and my linen,\nMy oil and my drink.’",
      "6": "“Therefore, behold,\nI will hedge up your way with thorns,\nAnd wall her in,\nSo that she cannot find her paths.",
      "7": "She will chase her lovers,\nBut not overtake them;\nYes, she will seek them, but not find them.\nThen she will say,\n‘I will go and return to my first husband,\nFor then it was better for me than now.’",
      "8": "For she did not know\nThat I gave her grain, new wine, and oil,\nAnd multiplied her silver and gold—\nWhich they prepared for Baal.",
      "9": "“Therefore I will return and take away\nMy grain in its time\nAnd My new wine in its season,\nAnd will take back My wool and My linen,\nGiven to cover her nakedness.",
      "10": "Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers,\nAnd no one shall deliver her from My hand.",
      "11": "I will also cause all her mirth to cease,\nHer feast days,\nHer New Moons,\nHer Sabbaths—\nAll her appointed feasts.",
      "12": "“And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees,\nOf which she has said,\n‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me.’\nSo I will make them a forest,\nAnd the beasts of the field shall eat them.",
      "13": "I will punish her\nFor the days of the Baals to which she burned incense.\nShe decked herself with her earrings and jewelry,\nAnd went after her lovers;\nBut Me she forgot,” says the Lord.",
      "14": "“Therefore, behold, I will allure her,\nWill bring her into the wilderness,\nAnd speak comfort to her.",
      "15": "I will give her her vineyards from there,\nAnd the Valley of Achor as a door of hope;\nShe shall sing there,\nAs in the days of her youth,\nAs in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.",
      "16": "“And it shall be, in that day,”\nSays the Lord,\n“That you will call Me ‘My Husband,’\nAnd no longer call Me ‘My Master,’",
      "17": "For I will take from her mouth the names of the Baals,\nAnd they shall be remembered by their name no more.",
      "18": "In that day I will make a covenant for them\nWith the beasts of the field,\nWith the birds of the air,\nAnd with the creeping things of the ground.\nBow and sword of battle I will shatter from the earth,\nTo make them lie down safely.",
      "19": "“I will betroth you to Me forever;\nYes, I will betroth you to Me\nIn righteousness and justice,\nIn lovingkindness and mercy;",
      "20": "I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness,\nAnd you shall know the Lord.",
      "21": "“It shall come to pass in that day\nThat I will answer,” says the Lord;\n“I will answer the heavens,\nAnd they shall answer the earth.",
      "22": "The earth shall answer\nWith grain,\nWith new wine,\nAnd with oil;\nThey shall answer Jezreel.",
      "23": "Then I will sow her for Myself in the earth,\nAnd I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy;\nThen I will say to those who were not My people,\n‘You are My people!’\nAnd they shall say, ‘You are my God!’ ”"
    },
    "3": {
      "1": "Then the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by a lover and is committing adultery, just like the love of the Lord for the children of Israel, who look to other gods and love the raisin cakes of the pagans.”",
      "2": "So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver, and one and one-half homers of barley.",
      "3": "And I said to her, “You shall stay with me many days; you shall not play the harlot, nor shall you have a man—so, too, will I be toward you.”",
      "4": "For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without ephod or teraphim.",
      "5": "Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God and David their king. They shall fear the Lord and His goodness in the latter days."
    },
    "4": {
      "1": "Hear the word of the Lord,\nYou children of Israel,\nFor the Lord brings a charge against the inhabitants of the land: \n“There is no truth or mercy\nOr knowledge of God in the land.",
      "2": "By swearing and lying,\nKilling and stealing and committing adultery,\nThey break all restraint,\nWith bloodshed upon bloodshed.",
      "3": "Therefore the land will mourn;\nAnd everyone who dwells there will waste away\nWith the beasts of the field\nAnd the birds of the air;\nEven the fish of the sea will be taken away.",
      "4": "“Now let no man contend, or rebuke another;\nFor your people are like those who contend with the priest.",
      "5": "Therefore you shall stumble in the day;\nThe prophet also shall stumble with you in the night;\nAnd I will destroy your mother.",
      "6": "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.\nBecause you have rejected knowledge,\nI also will reject you from being priest for Me;\nBecause you have forgotten the law of your God,\nI also will forget your children.",
      "7": "“The more they increased,\nThe more they sinned against Me;\nI will change their glory into shame.",
      "8": "They eat up the sin of My people;\nThey set their heart on their iniquity.",
      "9": "And it shall be: like people, like priest.\nSo I will punish them for their ways,\nAnd reward them for their deeds.",
      "10": "For they shall eat, but not have enough;\nThey shall commit harlotry, but not increase;\nBecause they have ceased obeying the Lord.",
      "11": "“Harlotry, wine, and new wine enslave the heart.",
      "12": "My people ask counsel from their wooden idols,\nAnd their staff informs them.\nFor the spirit of harlotry has caused them to stray,\nAnd they have played the harlot against their God.",
      "13": "They offer sacrifices on the mountaintops,\nAnd burn incense on the hills,\nUnder oaks, poplars, and terebinths,\nBecause their shade is good.\nTherefore your daughters commit harlotry,\nAnd your brides commit adultery.",
      "14": "“I will not punish your daughters when they commit harlotry,\nNor your brides when they commit adultery;\nFor the men themselves go apart with harlots,\nAnd offer sacrifices with a ritual harlot.\nTherefore people who do not understand will be trampled.",
      "15": "“Though you, Israel, play the harlot,\nLet not Judah offend.\nDo not come up to Gilgal,\nNor go up to Beth Aven,\nNor swear an oath, saying, ‘As the Lord lives’—",
      "16": "“For Israel is stubborn\nLike a stubborn calf;\nNow the Lord will let them forage\nLike a lamb in open country.",
      "17": "“Ephraim is joined to idols,\nLet him alone.",
      "18": "Their drink is rebellion,\nThey commit harlotry continually.\nHer rulers dearly love dishonor.",
      "19": "The wind has wrapped her up in its wings,\nAnd they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices."
    },
    "5": {
      "1": "“Hear this, O priests!\nTake heed, O house of Israel!\nGive ear, O house of the king!\nFor yours is the judgment,\nBecause you have been a snare to Mizpah\nAnd a net spread on Tabor.",
      "2": "The revolters are deeply involved in slaughter,\nThough I rebuke them all.",
      "3": "I know Ephraim,\nAnd Israel is not hidden from Me;\nFor now, O Ephraim, you commit harlotry;\nIsrael is defiled.",
      "4": "“They do not direct their deeds\nToward turning to their God,\nFor the spirit of harlotry is in their midst,\nAnd they do not know the Lord.",
      "5": "The pride of Israel testifies to his face;\nTherefore Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity;\nJudah also stumbles with them.",
      "6": "“With their flocks and herds\nThey shall go to seek the Lord,\nBut they will not find Him;\nHe has withdrawn Himself from them.",
      "7": "They have dealt treacherously with the Lord,\nFor they have begotten pagan children.\nNow a New Moon shall devour them and their heritage.",
      "8": "“Blow the ram’s horn in Gibeah,\nThe trumpet in Ramah!\nCry aloud at Beth Aven,\n‘Look behind you, O Benjamin!’",
      "9": "Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke;\nAmong the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure.",
      "10": "“The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark;\nI will pour out My wrath on them like water.",
      "11": "Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment,\nBecause he willingly walked by human precept.",
      "12": "Therefore I will be to Ephraim like a moth,\nAnd to the house of Judah like rottenness.",
      "13": "“When Ephraim saw his sickness,\nAnd Judah saw his wound,\nThen Ephraim went to Assyria\nAnd sent to King Jareb;\nYet he cannot cure you,\nNor heal you of your wound.",
      "14": "For I will be like a lion to Ephraim,\nAnd like a young lion to the house of Judah.\nI, even I, will tear them and go away;\nI will take them away, and no one shall rescue.",
      "15": "I will return again to My place\nTill they acknowledge their offense.\nThen they will seek My face;\nIn their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”"
    },
    "6": {
      "1": "Come, and let us return to the Lord;\nFor He has torn, but He will heal us;\nHe has stricken, but He will bind us up.",
      "2": "After two days He will revive us;\nOn the third day He will raise us up,\nThat we may live in His sight.",
      "3": "Let us know,\nLet us pursue the knowledge of the Lord.\nHis going forth is established as the morning;\nHe will come to us like the rain,\nLike the latter and former rain to the earth.",
      "4": "“O Ephraim, what shall I do to you?\nO Judah, what shall I do to you?\nFor your faithfulness is like a morning cloud,\nAnd like the early dew it goes away.",
      "5": "Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets,\nI have slain them by the words of My mouth;\nAnd your judgments are like light that goes forth.",
      "6": "For I desire mercy and not sacrifice,\nAnd the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.",
      "7": "“But like men they transgressed the covenant;\nThere they dealt treacherously with Me.",
      "8": "Gilead is a city of evildoers\nAnd defiled with blood.",
      "9": "As bands of robbers lie in wait for a man,\nSo the company of priests murder on the way to Shechem;\nSurely they commit lewdness.",
      "10": "I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel:\nThere is the harlotry of Ephraim;\nIsrael is defiled.",
      "11": "Also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed for you,\nWhen I return the captives of My people."
    },
    "7": {
      "1": "“When I would have healed Israel,\nThen the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered,\nAnd the wickedness of Samaria.\nFor they have committed fraud;\nA thief comes in;\nA band of robbers takes spoil outside.",
      "2": "They do not consider in their hearts\nThat I remember all their wickedness;\nNow their own deeds have surrounded them;\nThey are before My face.",
      "3": "They make a king glad with their wickedness,\nAnd princes with their lies.",
      "4": "“They are all adulterers.\nLike an oven heated by a baker—\nHe ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough,\nUntil it is leavened.",
      "5": "In the day of our king\nPrinces have made him sick, inflamed with wine;\nHe stretched out his hand with scoffers.",
      "6": "They prepare their heart like an oven,\nWhile they lie in wait;\nTheir baker sleeps all night;\nIn the morning it burns like a flaming fire.",
      "7": "They are all hot, like an oven,\nAnd have devoured their judges;\nAll their kings have fallen.\nNone among them calls upon Me.",
      "8": "“Ephraim has mixed himself among the peoples;\nEphraim is a cake unturned.",
      "9": "Aliens have devoured his strength,\nBut he does not know it;\nYes, gray hairs are here and there on him,\nYet he does not know it.",
      "10": "And the pride of Israel testifies to his face,\nBut they do not return to the Lord their God,\nNor seek Him for all this.",
      "11": "“Ephraim also is like a silly dove, without sense—\nThey call to Egypt,\nThey go to Assyria.",
      "12": "Wherever they go, I will spread My net on them;\nI will bring them down like birds of the air;\nI will chastise them\nAccording to what their congregation has heard.",
      "13": "“Woe to them, for they have fled from Me!\nDestruction to them,\nBecause they have transgressed against Me!\nThough I redeemed them,\nYet they have spoken lies against Me.",
      "14": "They did not cry out to Me with their heart\nWhen they wailed upon their beds. \n“They assemble together for grain and new wine,\nThey rebel against Me;",
      "15": "Though I disciplined and strengthened their arms,\nYet they devise evil against Me;",
      "16": "They return, but not to the Most High;\nThey are like a treacherous bow.\nTheir princes shall fall by the sword\nFor the cursings of their tongue.\nThis shall be their derision in the land of Egypt."
    },
    "8": {
      "1": "“Set the trumpet to your mouth!\nHe shall come like an eagle against the house of the Lord,\nBecause they have transgressed My covenant\nAnd rebelled against My law.",
      "2": "Israel will cry to Me,\n‘My God, we know You!’",
      "3": "Israel has rejected the good;\nThe enemy will pursue him.",
      "4": "“They set up kings, but not by Me;\nThey made princes, but I did not acknowledge them.\nFrom their silver and gold\nThey made idols for themselves—\nThat they might be cut off.",
      "5": "Your calf is rejected, O Samaria!\nMy anger is aroused against them—\nHow long until they attain to innocence?",
      "6": "For from Israel is even this:\nA workman made it, and it is not God;\nBut the calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces.",
      "7": "“They sow the wind,\nAnd reap the whirlwind.\nThe stalk has no bud;\nIt shall never produce meal.\nIf it should produce,\nAliens would swallow it up.",
      "8": "Israel is swallowed up;\nNow they are among the Gentiles\nLike a vessel in which is no pleasure.",
      "9": "For they have gone up to Assyria,\nLike a wild donkey alone by itself;\nEphraim has hired lovers.",
      "10": "Yes, though they have hired among the nations,\nNow I will gather them;\nAnd they shall sorrow a little,\nBecause of the burden of the king of princes.",
      "11": "“Because Ephraim has made many altars for sin,\nThey have become for him altars for sinning.",
      "12": "I have written for him the great things of My law,\nBut they were considered a strange thing.",
      "13": "For the sacrifices of My offerings they sacrifice flesh and eat it,\nBut the Lord does not accept them.\nNow He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.\nThey shall return to Egypt.",
      "14": "“For Israel has forgotten his Maker,\nAnd has built temples;\nJudah also has multiplied fortified cities;\nBut I will send fire upon his cities,\nAnd it shall devour his palaces.”"
    },
    "9": {
      "1": "Do not rejoice, O Israel, with joy like other peoples,\nFor you have played the harlot against your God.\nYou have made love for hire on every threshing floor.",
      "2": "The threshing floor and the winepress\nShall not feed them,\nAnd the new wine shall fail in her.",
      "3": "They shall not dwell in the Lord’s land,\nBut Ephraim shall return to Egypt,\nAnd shall eat unclean things in Assyria.",
      "4": "They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord,\nNor shall their sacrifices be pleasing to Him.\nIt shall be like bread of mourners to them;\nAll who eat it shall be defiled.\nFor their bread shall be for their own life;\nIt shall not come into the house of the Lord.",
      "5": "What will you do in the appointed day,\nAnd in the day of the feast of the Lord?",
      "6": "For indeed they are gone because of destruction.\nEgypt shall gather them up;\nMemphis shall bury them.\nNettles shall possess their valuables of silver;\nThorns shall be in their tents.",
      "7": "The days of punishment have come;\nThe days of recompense have come.\nIsrael knows!\nThe prophet is a fool,\nThe spiritual man is insane,\nBecause of the greatness of your iniquity and great enmity.",
      "8": "The watchman of Ephraim is with my God;\nBut the prophet is a fowler’s snare in all his ways—\nEnmity in the house of his God.",
      "9": "They are deeply corrupted,\nAs in the days of Gibeah.\nHe will remember their iniquity;\nHe will punish their sins.",
      "10": "“I found Israel\nLike grapes in the wilderness;\nI saw your fathers\nAs the firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season.\nBut they went to Baal Peor,\nAnd separated themselves to that shame;\nThey became an abomination like the thing they loved.",
      "11": "As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird—\nNo birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!",
      "12": "Though they bring up their children,\nYet I will bereave them to the last man.\nYes, woe to them when I depart from them!",
      "13": "Just as I saw Ephraim like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place,\nSo Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.”",
      "14": "Give them, O Lord—\nWhat will You give?\nGive them a miscarrying womb\nAnd dry breasts!",
      "15": "“All their wickedness is in Gilgal,\nFor there I hated them.\nBecause of the evil of their deeds\nI will drive them from My house;\nI will love them no more.\nAll their princes are rebellious.",
      "16": "Ephraim is stricken,\nTheir root is dried up;\nThey shall bear no fruit.\nYes, were they to bear children,\nI would kill the darlings of their womb.”",
      "17": "My God will cast them away,\nBecause they did not obey Him;\nAnd they shall be wanderers among the nations."
    },
    "10": {
      "1": "Israel empties his vine;\nHe brings forth fruit for himself.\nAccording to the multitude of his fruit\nHe has increased the altars;\nAccording to the bounty of his land\nThey have embellished his sacred pillars.",
      "2": "Their heart is divided;\nNow they are held guilty.\nHe will break down their altars;\nHe will ruin their sacred pillars.",
      "3": "For now they say,\n“We have no king,\nBecause we did not fear the Lord.\nAnd as for a king, what would he do for us?”",
      "4": "They have spoken words,\nSwearing falsely in making a covenant.\nThus judgment springs up like hemlock in the furrows of the field.",
      "5": "The inhabitants of Samaria fear\nBecause of the calf of Beth Aven.\nFor its people mourn for it,\nAnd its priests shriek for it—\nBecause its glory has departed from it.",
      "6": "The idol also shall be carried to Assyria\nAs a present for King Jareb.\nEphraim shall receive shame,\nAnd Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.",
      "7": "As for Samaria, her king is cut off\nLike a twig on the water.",
      "8": "Also the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel,\nShall be destroyed.\nThe thorn and thistle shall grow on their altars;\nThey shall say to the mountains, “Cover us!”\nAnd to the hills, “Fall on us!”",
      "9": "“O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah;\nThere they stood.\nThe battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity\nDid not overtake them.",
      "10": "When it is My desire, I will chasten them.\nPeoples shall be gathered against them\nWhen I bind them for their two transgressions.",
      "11": "Ephraim is a trained heifer\nThat loves to thresh grain;\nBut I harnessed her fair neck,\nI will make Ephraim pull a plow.\nJudah shall plow;\nJacob shall break his clods.”",
      "12": "Sow for yourselves righteousness;\nReap in mercy;\nBreak up your fallow ground,\nFor it is time to seek the Lord,\nTill He comes and rains righteousness on you.",
      "13": "You have plowed wickedness;\nYou have reaped iniquity.\nYou have eaten the fruit of lies,\nBecause you trusted in your own way,\nIn the multitude of your mighty men.",
      "14": "Therefore tumult shall arise among your people,\nAnd all your fortresses shall be plundered\nAs Shalman plundered Beth Arbel in the day of battle—\nA mother dashed in pieces upon her children.",
      "15": "Thus it shall be done to you, O Bethel,\nBecause of your great wickedness.\nAt dawn the king of Israel\nShall be cut off utterly."
    },
    "11": {
      "1": "“When Israel was a child, I loved him,\nAnd out of Egypt I called My son.",
      "2": "As they called them,\nSo they went from them;\nThey sacrificed to the Baals,\nAnd burned incense to carved images.",
      "3": "“I taught Ephraim to walk,\nTaking them by their arms;\nBut they did not know that I healed them.",
      "4": "I drew them with gentle cords,\nWith bands of love,\nAnd I was to them as those who take the yoke from their neck.\nI stooped and fed them.",
      "5": "“He shall not return to the land of Egypt;\nBut the Assyrian shall be his king,\nBecause they refused to repent.",
      "6": "And the sword shall slash in his cities,\nDevour his districts,\nAnd consume them,\nBecause of their own counsels.",
      "7": "My people are bent on backsliding from Me.\nThough they call to the Most High,\nNone at all exalt Him.",
      "8": "“How can I give you up, Ephraim?\nHow can I hand you over, Israel?\nHow can I make you like Admah?\nHow can I set you like Zeboiim?\nMy heart churns within Me;\nMy sympathy is stirred.",
      "9": "I will not execute the fierceness of My anger;\nI will not again destroy Ephraim.\nFor I am God, and not man,\nThe Holy One in your midst;\nAnd I will not come with terror.",
      "10": "“They shall walk after the Lord.\nHe will roar like a lion.\nWhen He roars,\nThen His sons shall come trembling from the west;",
      "11": "They shall come trembling like a bird from Egypt,\nLike a dove from the land of Assyria.\nAnd I will let them dwell in their houses,”\nSays the Lord.",
      "12": "“Ephraim has encircled Me with lies,\nAnd the house of Israel with deceit;\nBut Judah still walks with God,\nEven with the Holy One who is faithful."
    },
    "12": {
      "1": "“Ephraim feeds on the wind,\nAnd pursues the east wind;\nHe daily increases lies and desolation.\nAlso they make a covenant with the Assyrians,\nAnd oil is carried to Egypt.",
      "2": "“The Lord also brings a charge against Judah,\nAnd will punish Jacob according to his ways;\nAccording to his deeds He will recompense him.",
      "3": "He took his brother by the heel in the womb,\nAnd in his strength he struggled with God.",
      "4": "Yes, he struggled with the Angel and prevailed;\nHe wept, and sought favor from Him.\nHe found Him in Bethel,\nAnd there He spoke to us—",
      "5": "That is, the Lord God of hosts.\nThe Lord is His memorable name.",
      "6": "So you, by the help of your God, return;\nObserve mercy and justice,\nAnd wait on your God continually.",
      "7": "“A cunning Canaanite!\nDeceitful scales are in his hand;\nHe loves to oppress.",
      "8": "And Ephraim said,\n‘Surely I have become rich,\nI have found wealth for myself;\nIn all my labors\nThey shall find in me no iniquity that is sin.’",
      "9": "“But I am the Lord your God,\nEver since the land of Egypt;\nI will again make you dwell in tents,\nAs in the days of the appointed feast.",
      "10": "I have also spoken by the prophets,\nAnd have multiplied visions;\nI have given symbols through the witness of the prophets.”",
      "11": "Though Gilead has idols—\nSurely they are vanity—\nThough they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal,\nIndeed their altars shall be heaps in the furrows of the field.",
      "12": "Jacob fled to the country of Syria;\nIsrael served for a spouse,\nAnd for a wife he tended sheep.",
      "13": "By a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt,\nAnd by a prophet he was preserved.",
      "14": "Ephraim provoked Him to anger most bitterly;\nTherefore his Lord will leave the guilt of his bloodshed upon him,\nAnd return his reproach upon him."
    },
    "13": {
      "1": "When Ephraim spoke, trembling,\nHe exalted himself in Israel;\nBut when he offended through Baal worship, he died.",
      "2": "Now they sin more and more,\nAnd have made for themselves molded images,\nIdols of their silver, according to their skill;\nAll of it is the work of craftsmen.\nThey say of them,\n“Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves!”",
      "3": "Therefore they shall be like the morning cloud\nAnd like the early dew that passes away,\nLike chaff blown off from a threshing floor\nAnd like smoke from a chimney.",
      "4": "“Yet I am the Lord your God\nEver since the land of Egypt,\nAnd you shall know no God but Me;\nFor there is no savior besides Me.",
      "5": "I knew you in the wilderness,\nIn the land of great drought.",
      "6": "When they had pasture, they were filled;\nThey were filled and their heart was exalted;\nTherefore they forgot Me.",
      "7": "“So I will be to them like a lion;\nLike a leopard by the road I will lurk;",
      "8": "I will meet them like a bear deprived of her cubs;\nI will tear open their rib cage,\nAnd there I will devour them like a lion.\nThe wild beast shall tear them.",
      "9": "“O Israel, you are destroyed,\nBut your help is from Me.",
      "10": "I will be your King;\nWhere is any other,\nThat he may save you in all your cities?\nAnd your judges to whom you said,\n‘Give me a king and princes’?",
      "11": "I gave you a king in My anger,\nAnd took him away in My wrath.",
      "12": "“The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up;\nHis sin is stored up.",
      "13": "The sorrows of a woman in childbirth shall come upon him.\nHe is an unwise son,\nFor he should not stay long where children are born.",
      "14": "“I will ransom them from the power of the grave;\nI will redeem them from death.\nO Death, I will be your plagues!\nO Grave, I will be your destruction!\nPity is hidden from My eyes.”",
      "15": "Though he is fruitful among his brethren,\nAn east wind shall come;\nThe wind of the Lord shall come up from the wilderness.\nThen his spring shall become dry,\nAnd his fountain shall be dried up.\nHe shall plunder the treasury of every desirable prize.",
      "16": "Samaria is held guilty,\nFor she has rebelled against her God.\nThey shall fall by the sword,\nTheir infants shall be dashed in pieces,\nAnd their women with child ripped open."
    },
    "14": {
      "1": "O Israel, return to the Lord your God,\nFor you have stumbled because of your iniquity;",
      "2": "Take words with you,\nAnd return to the Lord.\nSay to Him,\n“Take away all iniquity;\nReceive us graciously,\nFor we will offer the sacrifices of our lips.",
      "3": "Assyria shall not save us,\nWe will not ride on horses,\nNor will we say anymore to the work of our hands, ‘You are our gods.’\nFor in You the fatherless finds mercy.”",
      "4": "“I will heal their backsliding,\nI will love them freely,\nFor My anger has turned away from him.",
      "5": "I will be like the dew to Israel;\nHe shall grow like the lily,\nAnd lengthen his roots like Lebanon.",
      "6": "His branches shall spread;\nHis beauty shall be like an olive tree,\nAnd his fragrance like Lebanon.",
      "7": "Those who dwell under his shadow shall return;\nThey shall be revived like grain,\nAnd grow like a vine.\nTheir scent shall be like the wine of Lebanon.",
      "8": "“Ephraim shall say, ‘What have I to do anymore with idols?’\nI have heard and observed him.\nI am like a green cypress tree;\nYour fruit is found in Me.”",
      "9": "Who is wise?\nLet him understand these things.\nWho is prudent?\nLet him know them.\nFor the ways of the Lord are right;\nThe righteous walk in them,\nBut transgressors stumble in them."
    }
  },
  "Info": {
    "Language": "English",
    "Meaningless": "1.2.0",
    "Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:56:53.834175-04:00",
    "Translation": "NKJV"
  }
}