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title: Hosea 13
slug: kjv/hosea-13
createdAt: 2024-08-25T02:54:40.894Z
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**1 **When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.

**2 **And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, *and* idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

**3 **Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff *that* is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

**4 **Yet I *am* the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for *there is* no saviour beside me.

**5 **I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

**6 **According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.

**7 **Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe *them*:

**8 **I will meet them as a bear *that is* bereaved *of her whelps*, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

**9 **O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me *is* thine help.

**10 **I will be thy king: where *is any other* that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?

**11 **I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took *him* away in my wrath.

**12 **The iniquity of Ephraim *is* bound up; his sin *is* hid.

**13 **The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he *is* an unwise son; for he should not stay long in *the place of* the breaking forth of children.

**14 **I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

**15 **Though he be fruitful among *his* brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.

**16 **Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.