Ephraim’s Idolatry: BIBLE, New American Standard Bible == BIBLE-CENTER

Hosea, Chapter 13

When Ephraim^aspoke, there was trembling.
He exalted himself in Israel,
But through Baal he^bdid wrong and died.

And now they sin more and more,
And make for themselves molten images,
Idols^cskillfully made from their silver,
All of them the work of craftsmen.
They say of them, “Let the^dmen who sacrifice kiss the calves!”

Therefore they will be like the morning cloud
And like dew which^esoon disappears,
Like chaff which is blown away from the threshing floor
And like smoke from a^fchimney.

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Yet I have been the LORD your God
Since the land of Egypt;
And you were not to know any god except Me,
For there is no savior besides Me.

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I^gcared for you in the wilderness,
In the land of drought.

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As they had their pasture, they became satisfied,
And being satisfied, their heart became proud;
Therefore they forgot Me.

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So I will be like a lion to them;
Like a leopard I will^hlie in wait by the wayside.

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I will encounter them like a bear robbed of her cubs,
And I will tear openⁱtheir chests;
There I will also devour them like a lioness,
As a wild beast would tear them.

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It is your destruction, O Israel,
^jThat you are against Me, against your help.

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Where now is your king
That he may save you in all your cities,
And your judges of whom you^krequested,
“Give me a king and princes”?

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I gave you a king in My anger
And took him away in My wrath.

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The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up;
His sin is stored up.

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The pains of childbirth come upon him;
He is not a wise son,
For^lit is not the time that he should delay at the opening of the womb.

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Shall I ransom them from the^mpower of Sheol?
Shall I redeem them from death?
O Death, where are your thorns?
O Sheol, where is your sting?
Compassion will be hidden from My sight.

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Though he flourishes among theⁿreeds,
An east wind will come,
The wind of the LORD coming up from the wilderness;
And his fountain will become dry
And his spring will be dried up;
It will plunder his treasury of every precious article.

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^oSamaria will be held guilty,
For she has rebelled against her God.
They will fall by the sword,
Their little ones will be dashed in pieces,
And their pregnant women will be ripped open.


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