Hosea1
1The word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) that came unto Hoshea [salvation], the son of Be’eri [my well], in the days of ‘Uziyah [my strength is Yehovah], Toram [Yehovah is Perfect], Achaz [he has grasped], [and] Hizkiyahu [Yehovah is my strength], kings of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and in the days of Yarov’am [the people will contend] the son of Yo’ash [Given by the Lord], king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].2The beginning of the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) by Hoshea [salvation]. And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said to Hoshea [salvation], Go, take unto youi a wife of cult prostitution and children of cult prostitution: for the land has committed great whoredom, [departing] from the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).3So he went and took Gomer [complete] the daughter of Divlayim [two cakes]; which conceived, and bore him a son.4And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto him, Call his name Yizre’el [God Sows]; for yet a little [while], and I will avenge the blood of Yizre’el [God Sows] upon the house of Yehu [Yehovah is He], and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].5And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] in the valley of Yizre’el [God Sows].6And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And [God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]] said unto him, Call her name Lo-Ruchamah [no mercy]: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; but I will utterly take them away.7But I will have mercy upon the house of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and will save them by the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.8Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruchamah [no mercy], she conceived, and bore a son.9Then said [God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]], Call his name Lo-’Ammi [not my people]: for you2f [are] not my people, and I will not be your [God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]].10Yet the number of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, You2f [are] not my people, [there] it shall be said unto them, [You2f are] the sons of the living God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].11Then shall the children of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great [shall be] the day of Yizre’el [God Sows].1Say you2f unto your brethren, ‘Ammi [my people]; and to your sisters, ‘Ruchamah [pitied].2Plead with your mother, plead: for she [is] not my wife, neither [am] I her husband: let her therefore put away her cult prostitution out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;3Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.4And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they [be] the children of cult prostitution.5For their mother has played the prostitute: she that conceived them has done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give [me] my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up youri way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.7And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find [them]: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then [was it] better with me than now.8For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, [which] they prepared for Ba’al [lord (a false god)].9Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax [given] to cover her nakedness.10And now will I reveal her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.11I will also cause all her gladness to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her Shabbat, and all her solemn feasts.12And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she has said, These [are] my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.13And I will visit upon her the days of Ba’alim [lords (false gods)], wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).14Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.15And I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Akhor [Trouble] for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place].16And it shall be at that day, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [that] youi shall call me Ishi [My Husband]; and shall call me no more Ba’ali [lord (a false god)].17For I will take away the names of Ba’alim [lords (false gods)] out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.18And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and [with] the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.19And I will betroth youi unto me forever; yes, I will betroth youi unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.20I will even betroth youi unto me in faithfulness: and youi shall know the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).21And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;22And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Yizre’el [God Sows].23And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to [them which were] not my people, youi [are] my people; and they shall say, [youi are] my God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].1Then said the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of [her] friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) toward the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], who look to other gods, and love raisin cakes.2So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and [for] an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:3And I said unto her, youi shall abide for me many days; youi shall not play the prostitute, and youi shall not be for [another] man: so [will] I also [be] for youi.4For the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod (vest), and [without] teraphim (household gods):5Afterward shall the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] return, and seek the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and David [beloved] their king; and shall fear the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) and his goodness in the latter days.1Hear the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), you2f people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because [there is] no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] in the land.2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood touches blood.3Therefore shall the land mourn, and everyone that dwells in it shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yes, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.4Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for youri people [are] as they that strive with the priest.5Therefore shall youi fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with youi in the night, and I will destroy youri mother.6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because youi have rejected knowledge, I will also reject youi, that youi shall be no priest to me: seeing youi have forgotten the law of youri God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], I will also forget youri children.7As they were increased, so they sinned against me: [therefore] will I change their glory into shame.8They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.9And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.10For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).11Whoredom and wine and New Wine take away the heart.12My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declares unto them: for the spirit of cult prostitution has caused [them] to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].13They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof [is] good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.14I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with prostitutes: therefore the people [that] does not understand shall fall.15Though youi, Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], play the prostitute, [yet] let not Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] offend (make angry; make one stumble; violate); and come not you2f unto Gilgal [A Wheel, Rolling], neither go you2f up to Beit-On [vanity] [house of vanity], nor swear, The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) lives.16For Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] slides back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) will feed them as a lamb in a large place.17Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] [is] joined to idols: let him alone.18Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers [with] shame do love, Give you2f.19The wind has bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.1Hear you2f this, O priests; and hearken, you2f house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; and give you2f ear, O house of the king; for judgment [is] toward you, because you2f have been a snare on Mitzpah [watchtower], and a net spread upon Tavor [Mound].2And the revolters are profound (go deep into something) to make slaughter, though I [have been] a rebuker of them all.3I know Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful], and Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] is not hid from me: for now, O Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful], youi commits whoredom, [and] Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] is defiled.4They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]: for the spirit of cult prostitution [is] in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).5And the pride of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] does testify to his face: therefore shall Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] and Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] fall in their iniquity; Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] also shall fall with them.6They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); but they shall not find [him]; he has withdrawn himself from them.7They have dealt treacherously against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.8Blow you2f the cornet (a wind instrument; horn; trumpet) in Giv’ah [Hill], [and] the trumpet in Ramah [Hill]: cry aloud [at] Beit-On [vanity] [house of vanity], after youi, O Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength].9Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] shall be desolate in the day of rebuke (reprimand; strongly warn; restrain): among the tribes of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] have I made known that which shall surely be.10The princes of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] were like them that remove the bound: [therefore] I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.11Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] [is] oppressed [and] broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.12Therefore [will] I [be] unto Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] as a moth, and to the house of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] as rottenness.13When Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] saw his sickness, and Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] [saw] his wound, then went Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] to the Ashur (Assyrian), and sent to king Yarav [contender]: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.14For I [will be] unto Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]: I, [even] I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue [him].15I will go [and] return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.1Come, and let us return unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has smitten, and he will bind us up.2After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.3Then shall we know, [if] we follow on to know the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter [and] former rain unto the earth.4O Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful], what shall I do unto youi? O Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], what shall I do unto youi? for your goodness [is] as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goes away.5Therefore have I hewed [them] by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and youri judgments [are as] the light [that] goes forth.6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] more than burnt offerings.7But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.8Gil’ad [Rocky Region] [is] a city of them that work iniquity, [and is] polluted with blood.9And as troops of robbers wait for a man, [so] the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.10I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: there [is] the whoredom of Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful], Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] is defiled.11Also, O Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], he has set an harvest for youi, when I returned the captivity of my people.1When I would have healed Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], then the iniquity of Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] was discovered, and the wickedness of Shomron [watch mountain]: for they commit falsehood; and the thief comes in, [and] the troop of robbers spoils without.2And they consider not in their hearts [that] I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.4They [are] all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, [who] ceases from raising after he has kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.5In the day of our king the princes have made [him] sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.6For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleeps all the night; in the morning it burns as a flaming fire.7They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: [there is] none among them that calls unto me.8Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful], he has mixed himself among the people; Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] is a cake not turned.9Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knows [it] not: yes, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knows not.10And the pride of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] testifies to his face: and they do not return to the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], nor seek him for all this.11Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to (to do entirely, do wholly) Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], they go to Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))).12When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.13Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.14And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, [and] they rebel against me.15Though I have bound [and] strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.16They return, [but] not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this [shall be] their ridicule (laughing at enemies’ threats) in the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place].1[Set] the trumpet to youri mouth. [He shall come] as an eagle against the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.2Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] shall cry unto me, My God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], we know youi.3Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] has cast off [the thing that is] good: the enemy shall pursue him.4They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew [it] not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.5You1s calf, O Shomron [watch mountain], has cast [youi] off; my anger is kindled against them: how long [will it be] before they attain to innocency?6For from Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] [was] it also: the workman made it; therefore it [is] not God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]: but the calf of Shomron [watch mountain] shall be broken in pieces.7For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it has no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow (to approve, commend, accept) it up.8Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] is swallow (to approve, commend, accept)ed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein [is] no pleasure.9For they are gone up to Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))), a wild ass alone by himself: Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] has hired lovers.10Yes, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes.11Because Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] has made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.12I have written to him the great things of my law, [but] they were counted as a strange thing.13They sacrifice flesh [for] the sacrifices of my offerings, and eat [it; but] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) accepts them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place].14For Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] has forgotten his Maker, and builds temples; and Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] has multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.1Rejoice not, O Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], for joy, as [other] people: for youi have gone a whoring from youri God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], youi have loved a reward upon every corn floor.2The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the New Wine shall fail in her.3They shall not dwell in the LORD-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] land; but Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] shall return to Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], and they shall eat unclean [things] in Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))).4They shall not offer wine [offerings] to the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices [shall be] unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).5What will you2f do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate)?6For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant [places] for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns [shall be] in their tabernacles.7The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] shall know [it]: the prophet [is] a fool, the spiritual man [is] mad, for the multitude of youi iniquity, and the great hatred.8The watchman of Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] [was] with my God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]: [but] the prophet [is] a snare of a fowler in all his ways, [and] hatred in the house of his God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].9They have deeply corrupted [themselves], as in the days of Giv’ah [Hill]: [therefore] he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.10I found Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: [but] they went to Ba’al-P’or [Lord of the Opening], and separated themselves unto [that] shame; and [their] abominations were according as they loved.11[As for] Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful], their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, [that there shall] not [be] a man [left]: yes, woe also to them when I depart from them!13Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful], as I saw Tzor (Tyrus) [a rock], [is] planted in a pleasant place: but Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] shall bring forth his children to the murderer.14Give them, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): what will youi give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.15All their wickedness [is] in Gilgal [A Wheel, Rolling]: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more: all their princes [are] revolters.16Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yes, though they bring forth, yet will I slay [even] the beloved [fruit] of their womb.17My God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.1Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] [is] an empty vine, he brings forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he has increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.2Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil (plunder; prey; booty) their images.3For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); what then should a king do to us?4They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springs up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.5The inhabitants of Shomron [watch mountain] shall fear because of the calves of Beit-On [vanity] [house of vanity]: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof [that] rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.6It shall be also carried unto Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))) [for] a present to king Yarav [contender]: Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] shall receive shame, and Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] shall be ashamed of his own counsel.7[As for] Shomron [watch mountain], her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.8The high places also of On [vanity], the sin of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.9O Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], youi have sinned from the days of Giv’ah [Hill]: there they stood: the battle in Giv’ah [Hill] against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.10[It is] in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.11And Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] [is as] an heifer [that is] taught, [and] loves to trample out [the corn]; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] to ride; Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] shall plow, [and] Ya’akov [Heal of God] shall break his clods.12Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow (to approve, commend, accept) ground: for [it is] time to seek the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), till he come and rain righteousness upon you.13You2f have plowed wickedness, you2f have reaped iniquity; you2f have eaten the fruit of lies: because youi did trust in youri way, in the multitude of youri mighty men.14Therefore shall a tumult arise among youri people, and all youri fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman [fire-worshipper] spoiled Beit-Arbel [house of God’s ambush] in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon [her] children.15So shall Beit-El [House of God] do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] utterly be cut off.1When Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] [was] a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place].2[As] they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Ba’alim [lords (false gods)], and burned incense to graven images.3I taught Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.4I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.5He shall not return into the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], but the Ashur (Assyrian) shall be his king, because they refused to return.6And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour [them], because of their own counsels.7And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt [him].8How shall I give youi up, Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful]? [how] shall I deliver youi, Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]? how shall I make youi as Admah [Red Earth]? [how] shall I set youi as Tzvoyim [Gazelles]? my heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.9I will not execute the fierceness of my anger, I will not return to destroy Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful]: for I [am] God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and not man; the Holy One in the midst of youi: and I will not enter into the city.10They shall walk after the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.11They shall tremble as a bird out of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], and as a dove out of the land of Ashur [the level plain] (the land of the sons of Shem (name, renown (great reputation; being well-known))): and I will place them in their houses, says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).12Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] compasses me about with lies, and the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] with deceit: but Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] yet rules with God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and is faithful with the saints.1Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind: he daily increases lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the children of Ashur, and oil is carried into Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place].2The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has also a controversy with Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and will punish Ya’akov [Heal of God] according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.3He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]:4Yes, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him [in] Beit-El [House of God], and there he spoke with us;5Even the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies]; the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] his memorial.6Therefore turn youi to youri God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on youri God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] continually.7[He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loves to oppress.8And Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: [in] all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that [were] sin.9And I [that am] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youri God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] from the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] will yet make youi to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.10I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.11[Is there] iniquity [in] Gil’ad [Rocky Region]? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal [A Wheel, Rolling]; yes, their altars [are] as heaps in the furrows of the fields.12And Ya’akov [Heal of God] fled into the country of Aram (Syria) [exalted], and Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep].13And by a prophet the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) brought Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] out of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], and by a prophet was he preserved.14Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] provoked [him] to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach (disgrace; shame) shall his Lord [Adon – Ruler of the Earth] return unto him.1When Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] spoke trembling, he exalted himself in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; but when he offended in Ba’al [lord (a false god)], he died.2And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, [and] idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.3Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passes away, as the chaff [that] is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.4Yet I [am] the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youi God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] from the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], and youi shall know no god but me: for [there is] no saviour beside me.5I did know youi in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.6According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.7Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe [them]:8I will meet them as a bear [that is] bereaved [of her whelps], and will rend (tear apart; forcefully rip apart) the caul (membrane; fatty tissue around a bodily organ) of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.9O Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], youi have destroyed yourself; but in me [is] youi help.10I will be youri king: where [is any other] that may save youi in all youri cities? and youri of whom youi said, Give me a king and princes?11I gave youi a king in my anger, and took [him] away in my wrath.12The iniquity of Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] [is] bound up; his sin [is] hid.13The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he [is] an unwise son; for he should not stay long in [the place of] the breaking forth of children.14I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be youri plagues; O grave, I will be youri destruction: repentance shall be hid from my eyes.15Though he be fruitful among [his] brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil (plunder; prey; booty) the treasure of all pleasant vessels.16Shomron [watch mountain] shall become desolate; for she has rebelled against her God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.1O Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], return unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youri God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]; for youi have fallen by youri iniquity.2Take with you words, and turn to the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive [us] graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.3Ashur [A Level Plain] shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, [You2f are] our gods: for in youi the fatherless finds mercy.4I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for my anger is turned away from him.5I will be as the dew unto Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as L’vanon [Whiteness].6His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as L’vanon [Whiteness].7They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive [as] the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof [shall be] as the wine of L’vanon [Whiteness].8Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] [shall say], What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard [him], and observed him: I [am] like a green fir tree. From me is youi fruit found.9Who [is] wise, and he shall understand these [things]? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [are] right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall in it.
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