Hosea 9:7-17 ▼

7 The dayes of visitation are come, the dayes of recompence are come: and then shall Israel knowe that they were deceaued by a foolishe, mad, & franticke prophete: for the multitude of thine iniquitie God shall multiplie enemies agaynst thee.

8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God but the prophete is the snare of a fouler in all his wayes, and an abhomination in the house of his God.

9 They haue gone to the bottome, they are corrupt as in the dayes of Gibea: therfore he wyll remember their iniquitie, and visite their sinnes.

10 I founde Israel like grapes in the wildernesse, & sawe their fathers as the first ripe in ye figge tree at her first season: but they went to Baal Peor, & seperated them selues to that shame, and became as abhominable as their louers.

11 Ephraim their glorie shall flee away like a birde: for birth, for wombe, and conception.

12 And though they bryng vp children, yet I wyll destroy them before they be men: Yea wo shall come to them when I depart from them.

13 Ephraim (as me thinke) is planted in a pleasaunt place, like as is Tyrus: but nowe must she bryng her owne children foorth to the manslayer.

14 O Lorde geue them: what shalt thou geue them? Geue them an vnfruitfull wombe, and drye breastes.

15 All their wickednesse is done at Gilgall, there do I abhorre them: for the vngratiousnesse of their owne inuentions I wyll driue them out of my house, I wyll loue them no more, for all their princes are vnfaithfull.

16 Ephraim is hewen downe, their roote is dried vp, so that they shall bryng no more fruite: yea and though they bryng foorth any, yet wyll I slay euen the best beloued of their body.

17 My God shall cast them away, for they haue not ben obedient vnto him, therfore shall they wander among the heathen.