Hosea - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 603
The Books of the Prophets
HOSEA.
8--3 9...5
Israel cast off the Good ; So his foeman pursues! -·— They made Kings to reign, But it was not from Me ! They made themselves Princes, But I approved not! They made Idols of silver and gold By whom they have cut themselves off l Shomeron! cast 0&` your calf l My anger is hot against you! Can you never succeed to repent? The thing that was made by a smith, Cam never be Israel’s GOD! So Shomer0n's Calf shall be smashed! And as they have sown only Wind, The Whirlwind alone shall they reap. Without sta1k,··—the ear cannot make meal, Or what it yields strangers devour! Thus Israel, you are gulped down, Among nations like things they dislike ; For they went up to Ashur, a lonely wild ass; Ephraim paid him to bring paramours! Altho’ they have hired the heathen, I will gather them, and they shall sigh, Depressed by the load of the Emperor—Kingl Since Ephraim has multiplied Altars for Sin, His Altars shall bring him to grief! I wrote him a number of Laws, But he thinks they are things that are strange. They sacrifice offerings to Me, They sacrifice iiesh,·—·-and they eat But the LORD will not take it from them, For He thinks of their vice, Aud will visit their sin. So to Mitzer they now shall go back. For Israel, his Maker forgetting, Has Palaces built for himself; And Judah increases strong cities, But I will send fire to his towns, And her Palaces I will consume. Qrnunriniiun nf Qiagen §I1im:rrs. I0 II I2 Let not Israel joy in the dance of the Heathen; For you whore from your Gon, And make love here in every barn l Neither corn store nor wine bin will fill, And new wine shall be wanting to you. No more dwell in the land of the Lord, But, Ephraim, to Mitzer return, Or eat in defilement with Ashur, Pour no more wine to the LORD, Nor be pleasing to Him by your Gifts, For they shall be like funeral bread, All eating of them be defiled. Their food shall be like to their persons, Not enter the House of the Loan! What will you do on the day of Assembly 7 At the time of the feast of the LORD? (:303
