Hosea - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 601
The Books of the Prophets
HOSEA.
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With your Hooks and your herds, go and question the LORD,~·— 6
Yet they find not ;——Hc draws off from them!
The LORD you betrayed when you bore bastard sons,
Now a, month will eat them and their herds.
3 Warning in israel.
Sound the trumpet in Ghibeh, the loud gong in Ramah,··- 8
Rouse Beth~aven,————and Benjamin bring in with you l
Ii or Ephraim shall be waste in the day of reproof,
To Israel’s Tribes, I proclaim the event.
]udah’s Chiefs are like breakers of bounds!
So on them I will pour out My rage like a stream}
Ephraim is broken, and crushed by defeat,
Because he consented to follow the lies.
So to Ephraim I was like a moth,
And to }udah’s House like a decay.
But when Ephraim perceived his disease,
And when judah discovered his wound,-—
Then Ephraim went off to seek Ashur,
And set loose the Ravaging King;
But he could not find you a. cure,
Nor could he take from you your sore l
For to Ephraim I was like a lion,
And a tiger to ]udah’s house, Il
I will tear,—and be off,
I will snatch——and no man shall release.
1 will go and return to My den,
Till they suffer and seek for My face;
About Me they will think in their grief I
israel Walks nf ilcpcntiug.
EPHRAIM SPEAKS.
‘ Let us go and return to the LORD,
He has torn us, He only can heal;
He wounded, and He can bind up;
Can revive us from day on to day;
Cam raise,—·—and make live in His presence,
Can teach and instruct to know LIFE.
His progress is fixed like the dawn,
And He comes to us like showers come;
Like the Harvest rain poured on the earth l '
Tim LORD 1zE1>r.1Es.
‘_ What can I do for you Ephraim?
And what can I judah for you?
Your piety, like morning clouds,
And like dew, at the dawn fades away l
’I`ho’ I sought you by Preachers,
And slew by their words from My mouth,
And My judgments flashed on you like light?
I wish more for Mercy than Offerings,
And for knowledge of GOD more than Gifts.
But like Adam you broke from the contract,
You always were faithless to Mel
‘ Gilad is a city of villains,
It is rich in the foot-marks of blood!
And like gang-robbers hiding for men,
Gangs of Priests on the Shekem road murder,
There they practise deliberate crime I
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