Ephraim’s Idolatry
13 (A)When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling.
He (B)exalted himself in Israel,
But through (C)Baal he incurred guilt and died.
2 And now they sin more and more,
And make for themselves (D)cast metal images,
Idols (E)skillfully made from their silver,
All of them the (F)work of craftsmen.
They say of them, “Let the people who sacrifice kiss the (G)calves!”
3 Therefore they will be like the (H)morning cloud
And like dew which soon disappears,
Like (I)chaff which is blown away from the threshing floor,
And like (J)smoke from a chimney.
4 Yet I have been the (K)Lord your God
Since the land of Egypt;
And you were not to know (L)any god except Me,
For there is no savior (M)besides Me.
5 I (N)cared for you in the wilderness,
(O)In the land of drought.
6 As they had their pasture, they became (P)satisfied,
And as they became satisfied, their (Q)heart became proud;
Therefore they (R)forgot Me.
7 So I will be (S)like a lion to them;
Like a (T)leopard I will lie in wait by the wayside.
8 I will confront them (U)like a bear deprived of her cubs,
And I will tear open their chests;
I will also (V)devour them there like a lioness,
As a wild animal would tear them to pieces.
9 It is to your own destruction, Israel,
That you are (W)against Me, against your (X)help.
10 Where then is your (Y)king,
That he might save you in all your cities;
And your (Z)judges, to whom you said,
“Give me a king and princes”?
11 I (AA)gave you a king in My anger,
And (AB)took him away in My wrath.
12 The guilt of Ephraim is wrapped up;
His sin is (AC)stored up.
13 The pains of (AD)childbirth come on him;
He is (AE)not a wise son,
For it is not the time that he should (AF)delay at the opening of the womb.
14 Shall I (AG)ransom them from the power of Sheol?
Shall I redeem them from death?
(AH)Death, where are your thorns?
Sheol, where is your sting?
(AI)Compassion will be hidden from My sight.
15 Though he (AJ)flourishes among the reeds,
An (AK)east wind will come,
The wind of the Lord coming up from the wilderness;
And his fountain will (AL)become dry
And his spring will dry up;
It will (AM)plunder his treasury of every precious article.
16 Samaria will pay the penalty for her (AN)guilt,
Because she has (AO)rebelled against her God.
(AP)They will fall by the (AQ)sword,
Their children will be (AR)slaughtered,
And their pregnant (AS)women will be ripped open.
Footnotes
- Hosea 13:1
- Hosea 13:2
- Hosea 13:2
- Hosea 13:3
- Hosea 13:5
- Hosea 13:7
- Hosea 13:8
- Hosea 13:9
- Hosea 13:13
- Hosea 13:14
- Hosea 13:14
- Hosea 13:15
- Hosea 13:16
- Hosea 13:16
Cross references
- Hosea 13:1 : Job 29:21, 22
- Hosea 13:1 : Judg 8:1; 12:1
- Hosea 13:1 : Hos 2:8-17; 11:2
- Hosea 13:2 : Is 46:6; Jer 10:4; Hos 2:8
- Hosea 13:2 : Is 44:17-20
- Hosea 13:2 : Hos 8:6
- Hosea 13:2 : Hos 8:5, 6; 10:5
- Hosea 13:3 : Hos 6:4
- Hosea 13:3 : Ps 1:4; Is 17:13; Dan 2:35
- Hosea 13:3 : Ps 68:2
- Hosea 13:4 : Hos 12:9
- Hosea 13:4 : Ex 20:3; 2 Kin 18:35
- Hosea 13:4 : Is 43:11; 45:21, 22
- Hosea 13:5 : Deut 2:7; 32:10
- Hosea 13:5 : Deut 8:15
- Hosea 13:6 : Deut 8:12, 14; 32:13-15; Jer 5:7
- Hosea 13:6 : Hos 7:14
- Hosea 13:6 : Hos 2:13; 4:6; 8:14
- Hosea 13:7 : Lam 3:10; Hos 5:14
- Hosea 13:7 : Jer 5:6
- Hosea 13:8 : 2 Sam 17:8
- Hosea 13:8 : Ps 50:22
- Hosea 13:9 : Jer 2:17, 19; Mal 1:12, 13
- Hosea 13:9 : Deut 33:26, 29
- Hosea 13:10 : 2 Kin 17:4; Hos 8:4
- Hosea 13:10 : 1 Sam 8:5, 6
- Hosea 13:11 : 1 Sam 8:7; 10:17-24
- Hosea 13:11 : 1 Sam 15:26; 1 Kin 14:7-10; Hos 10:7
- Hosea 13:12 : Deut 32:34, 35; Job 14:17; Rom 2:5
- Hosea 13:13 : Is 13:8; Mic 4:9, 10
- Hosea 13:13 : Deut 32:6; Hos 5:4
- Hosea 13:13 : Is 37:3; 66:9
- Hosea 13:14 : Ps 49:15; Ezek 37:12, 13
- Hosea 13:14 : 1 Cor 15:55
- Hosea 13:14 : Jer 20:16; 31:35-37
- Hosea 13:15 : Gen 49:22; Hos 10:1
- Hosea 13:15 : Gen 41:6; Jer 4:11, 12; Ezek 17:10; 19:12
- Hosea 13:15 : Jer 51:36
- Hosea 13:15 : Jer 20:5
- Hosea 13:16 : Hos 10:2
- Hosea 13:16 : Hos 7:14
- Hosea 13:16 : 2 Kin 8:12
- Hosea 13:16 : Hos 11:6
- Hosea 13:16 : Hos 10:14
- Hosea 13:16 : 2 Kin 15:16
