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title="Hosea 12">◄</a> Hosea 13 <a href="../hosea/14.htm" title="Hosea 14">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/hosea/13.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>’s Relentless Judgment on Israel</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/13-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling;</span><br /><span class="indent">he was exalted in Israel,</span><br /><span class="indent">but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/13-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And now they sin more and more,</span><br /><span class="indent">and make for themselves metal images,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">idols skillfully made of their silver,</span><br /><span class="indent">all of them the work of craftsmen.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">It is said of them,</span><br /><span class="indent">“Those who offer human sacrifice kiss calves!”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Therefore they shall be like the morning mist</span><br /><span class="indent">or like the dew that goes early away,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor</span><br /><span class="indent">or like smoke from a window.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God</span><br /><span class="indent">from the land of Egypt;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">you know no God but me,</span><br /><span class="indent">and besides me there is no savior.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">It was I who knew you in the wilderness,</span><br /><span class="indent">in the land of drought;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">but when they had grazed,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew according to their pasture">a</a></sup></span> they became full,</span><br /><span class="indent">they were filled, and their heart was lifted up;</span><br /><span class="indent">therefore they forgot me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">So I am to them like a lion;</span><br /><span class="indent">like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs;</span><br /><span class="indent">I will tear open their breast,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and there I will devour them like a lion,</span><br /><span class="indent">as a wild beast would rip them open.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He destroys<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or I will destroy">b</a></sup></span> you, O Israel,</span><br /><span class="indent">for you are against me, against your helper.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities?</span><br /><span class="indent">Where are all your rulers—</span><br /><span class="ln-group">those of whom you said,</span><br /><span class="indent">“Give me a king and princes”?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I gave you a king in my anger,</span><br /><span class="indent">and I took him away in my wrath.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up;</span><br /><span class="indent">his sin is kept in store.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The pangs of childbirth come for him,</span><br /><span class="indent">but he is an unwise son,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for at the right time he does not present himself</span><br /><span class="indent">at the opening of the womb.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol;</span><br /><span class="indent">I shall redeem them from Death.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death?">c</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="ln-group">O Death, where are your plagues?</span><br /><span class="indent">O Sheol, where is your sting?</span><br /><span class="indent">Compassion is hidden from my eyes.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Though he may flourish among his brothers,</span><br /><span class="indent">the east wind, the wind of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, shall come,</span><br /><span class="indent">rising from the wilderness,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and his fountain shall dry up;</span><br /><span class="indent">his spring shall be parched;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">it shall strip his treasury</span><br /><span class="indent">of every precious thing.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group"><span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Ch 14:1 in Hebrew">d</a></sup></span> Samaria shall bear her guilt,</span><br /><span class="indent">because she has rebelled against her God;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">they shall fall by the sword;</span><br /><span class="indent">their little ones shall be dashed in pieces,</span><br /><span class="indent">and their pregnant women ripped open.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> Hebrew <i>according to their pasture</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> Or <i>I will destroy</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> Or <i>Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? 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