Bible (American Standard)/Hosea

Hosea
==Chapter 1==
 The word of Jehovah that came unto Hosea the son of
Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings
of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of
Israel. 
 When Jehovah spake at the first by Hosea, Jehovah
said unto Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredom and
children of whoredom; for the land doth commit great whoredom,
[departing] from Jehovah. 
 So he went and took Gomer the
daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bare him a son.
 And Jehovah said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet
a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the
house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel
to cease. 
 And it shall come to pass at that day, that I
will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel. 
 And
she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And [Jehovah] said
unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah; for I will no more have
mercy upon the house of Israel, that I should in any wise pardon
them. 
 But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and
will save them by Jehovah their God, and will not save them by
bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
 Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and
bare a son. 
 And [Jehovah] said, Call his name Lo-ammi; for
ye are not my people, and I will not be your [God]. 
 Yet
the number of the children of Israel 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, Ye are not
my people, it shall be said unto them, [Ye are] the sons of the
living God. 
 And the children of Judah and the children of
Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint
themselves one head, and shall go up from the land; for great
shall be the day of Jezreel.
==Chapter 2==
 Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters,
Ruhamah. 
 Contend with your mother, contend; for she is not
my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her
whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her
breasts; 
 lest 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. 
 Yea, upon her
children will I have no mercy; for they are children of
whoredom; 
 for their mother hath played the harlot; she
that conceived them hath done shamefully; for she said, I will
go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool
and my flax, mine oil and my drink. 
 Therefore, behold, I
will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall
against her, that she shall not find her paths. 
 And 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. 
 For she did not know that I gave
her the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied
unto her silver and gold, which they used for Baal. 
 Therefore, will I take back my grain in the time thereof, and my
new wine in the season thereof, and will pluck away my wool and
my flax which should have covered her nakedness. 
 And now
will I uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none
shall deliver her out of my hand. 
 I will also cause all
her mirth to cease, her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths,
and all her solemn assemblies. 
 And I will lay waste her
vines and her fig-trees, whereof she hath said, These are my
hire that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a
forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. 
 And I
will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, unto which she
burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and
her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith
Jehovah. 
 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring
her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. 
 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of
Achor for a door of hope; and she shall make answer there, as in
the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of
the land of Egypt. 
 And it shall be at that day, saith
Jehovah, that thou shalt call me Ishi, and shalt call me no more
Baali. 
 For I will take away the names of the Baalim out
of her mouth, and they shall no more be mentioned by their name.
 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the
beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and with
the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and
the sword and the battle out of the land, and will make them to
lie down safely. 
 And I will betroth thee unto me for
ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in
justice, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. 
 I will
even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness; and thou shalt know
Jehovah. 
 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will
answer, saith Jehovah, I will answer the heavens, and they shall
answer the earth; 
 and the earth shall answer the grain,
and the new wine, and the oil; and they shall answer Jezreel.
 And 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 that were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall
say, [Thou art] my God.
==Chapter 3==
 And Jehovah said unto me, Go again, love a woman
beloved of [her] friend, and an adulteress, even as Jehovah
loveth the children of Israel, though they turn unto other gods,
and love cakes of raisins. 
 So I bought her to me for
fifteen [pieces] of silver, and a homer of barley, and a
half-homer of barley; 
 and I said unto her, Thou shalt
abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou
shalt not be any man's wife: so will I also be toward thee.
 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without
king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without
pillar, and without ephod or teraphim: 
 afterward shall the
children of Israel return, and seek Jehovah their God, and David
their king, and shall come with fear unto Jehovah and to his
goodness in the latter days.
==Chapter 4==
 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel; for
Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land,
because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in
the land. 
 There is nought but swearing and breaking faith,
and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break
out, and blood toucheth blood. 
 Therefore, shall the land
mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with
the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens; yea, the
fishes of the sea also shall be taken away. 
 Yet let no man
strive, neither let any man reprove; for thy people are as they
that strive with the priest. 
 And thou shalt stumble in the
day, and the prophet also shall stumble with thee in the night;
and I will destroy thy mother. 
 My people are destroyed for
lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will
also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing
thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy
children. 
 As they were multiplied, so they sinned against
me: I will change their glory into shame. 
 They feed on the
sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity. 
 And it shall be, like people, like priest; and I will punish
them for their ways, and will requite them their doings. 
 And they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall play the
harlot, and shall not increase; because they have left off
taking heed to Jehovah. 
 Whoredom and wine and new wine
take away the understanding. 
 My people ask counsel at
their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit
of whoredom hath caused them to err, and they have played the
harlot, [departing] from under their God. 
 They sacrifice
upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills,
under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow
thereof is good: therefore your daughters play the harlot, and
your brides commit adultery. 
 I will not punish your
daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they
commit adultery; for [the men] themselves go apart with harlots,
and they sacrifice with the prostitutes; and the people that
doth not understand shall be overthrown. 
 Though thou,
Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not
ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, As
Jehovah liveth. 
 For Israel hath behaved himself
stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer: now will Jehovah feed them
as a lamb in a large place. 
 Ephraim is joined to idols;
let him alone. 
 Their drink is become sour; they play the
harlot continually; her rulers dearly love shame. 
 The
wind hath wrapped her up in its wings; and they shall be put to
shame because of their sacrifices.
==Chapter 5==
 Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, O house of
Israel, and give ear, O house of the king; for unto you
pertaineth the judgment; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and
a net spread upon Tabor. 
 And the revolters are gone deep
in making slaughter; but I am a rebuker of them all. 
 I
know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, O Ephraim,
thou hast played the harlot, Israel is defiled. 
 Their
doings will not suffer them to turn unto their God; for the
spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not Jehovah.
 And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face:
therefore Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity;
Judah also shall stumble with them. 
 They shall go with
their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah; but they
shall not find him: he hath withdrawn himself from them. 
 They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah; for they have
borne strange children: now shall the new moon devour them with
their fields. 
 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the
trumpet in Ramah: sound an alarm at Beth-aven; behind thee, O
Benjamin. 
 Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of
rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which
shall surely be. 
 The princes of Judah are like them that
remove the landmark: I will pour out my wrath upon them like
water. 
 Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment;
because he was content to walk after [man's] command. 
 Therefore, am I unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah
as rottenness. 
 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah
[saw] his wound, then went Ephraim to Assyria, and sent to king
Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you
of your wound. 
 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and
as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and
go away; I will carry off, and there shall be none to deliver.
 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge
their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will
seek me earnestly.
==Chapter 6==
 Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn,
and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
 After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will
raise us up, and we shall live before him. 
 And let us
know, let us follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is sure
as the morning; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the
latter rain that watereth the earth. 
 O Ephraim, what shall
I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your
goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth early
away. 
 Therefore, have I hewed them by the prophets; I have
slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are [as]
the light that goeth forth. 
 For I desire goodness, and not
sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
 But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant: there
have they dealt treacherously against me. 
 Gilead is a city
of them that work iniquity; it is stained with blood. 
 And
as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests
murder in the way toward Shechem; yea, they have committed
lewdness. 
 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible
thing: there whoredom is [found] in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
 Also, O Judah, there is a harvest appointed for thee,
when I bring back the captivity of my people.
==Chapter 7==
 When I would heal Israel, then is the iniquity of
Ephraim uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they
commit falsehood, and the thief entereth in, and the troop of
robbers ravageth without. 
 And they consider not in their
hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now have their own
doings beset them about; they are before my face. 
 They
make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with
their lies. 
 They are all adulterers; they are as an oven
heated by the baker; he ceaseth to stir [the fire], from the
kneading of the dough, until it be leavened. 
 On the day of
our king the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine;
he stretched out his hand with scoffers. 
 For they have
made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait:
their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as
a flaming fire. 
 They are all hot as an oven, and devour
their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among
them that calleth unto me. 
 Ephraim, he mixeth himself
among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned. 
 Strangers
have devoured his strength, and he knoweth [it] not: yea, gray
hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth [it] not.
 And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: yet
they have not returned unto Jehovah their God, nor sought him,
for all this. 
 And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without
understanding: they call unto Egypt, they go to Assyria. 
 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring
them down as the birds of the heavens; I will chastise them, as
their congregation hath heard. 
 Woe unto them! for they
have wandered from me; destruction unto them! for they have
trespassed against me: though I would redeem them, yet they have
spoken lies against me. 
 And they have not cried unto me
with their heart, but they howl upon their beds: they assemble
themselves for grain and new wine; they rebel against me. 
 Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet do they
devise mischief against me. 
 They return, but not to [him
that is] on high; they are like a deceitful bow; their princes
shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall
be their derision in the land of Egypt.
==Chapter 8==
 [Set] the trumpet to thy mouth. As an eagle [he cometh]
against the house of Jehovah, because they have transgressed my
covenant, and trespassed against my law. 
 They shall cry
unto me, My God, we Israel know thee. 
 Israel hath cast off
that which is good: the enemy shall pursue him. 
 They 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. 
 He hath cast off thy
calf, O Samaria; mine anger is kindled against them: how long
will it be ere they attain to innocency? 
 For from Israel
is even this; the workman made it, and it is no God; yea, the
calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces. 
 For they sow
the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: he hath no standing
grain; the blade shall yield no meal; if so be it yield,
strangers shall swallow it up. 
 Israel is swallowed up: now
are they among the nations as a vessel wherein none delighteth.
 For they are gone up to Assyria, [like] a wild ass alone
by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. 
 Yea, though they
hire among the nations, now will I gather them; and they begin
to be diminished by reason of the burden of the king of princes.
 Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars for sinning,
altars have been unto him for sinning. 
 I wrote for him
the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a
strange thing. 
 As for the sacrifices of mine offerings,
they sacrifice flesh and eat it; but Jehovah accepteth them not:
now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins; they
shall return to Egypt. 
 For Israel hath forgotten his
Maker, and builded palaces; and Judah hath multiplied fortified
cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall
devour the castles thereof.
==Chapter 9==
 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, like the peoples; for
thou hast played the harlot, [departing] from thy God; thou hast
loved hire upon every grain-floor. 
 The threshing-floor and
the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail
her. 
 They shall not dwell in Jehovah's land; but Ephraim
shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in
Assyria. 
 They shall not pour out wine-offerings to
Jehovah, 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 shall be for
their appetite; it shall not come into the house of Jehovah.
 What will ye do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the
day of the feast of Jehovah? 
 For, lo, they are gone away
from destruction; [yet] Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis
shall bury them; their pleasant things of silver, nettles shall
possess them; thorns shall be in their tents. 
 The days of
visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel
shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the man that hath the
spirit is mad, for the abundance of thine iniquity, and because
the enmity is great. 
 Ephraim [was] a watchman with my God:
as for the prophet, a fowler's snare is in all his ways, [and]
enmity in the house of his God. 
 They have deeply corrupted
themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their
iniquity, he will visit their sins. 
 I found Israel like
grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe
in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-peor,
and consecrated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became
abominable like that which they loved. 
 As for Ephraim,
their glory shall fly away like a bird: there shall be no birth,
and none with child, and no conception. 
 Though they bring
up their children, yet will I bereave them, so that not a man
shall be left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
 Ephraim, like as I have seen Tyre, is planted in a
pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring out his children to the
slayer. 
 Give them, O Jehovah-what wilt thou give? give
them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. 
 All their
wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them: because of the
wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house; I
will love them no more; all their princes are revolters. 
 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no
fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved
fruit of their womb. 
 My God will cast them away, because
they did not hearken unto him; and they shall be wanderers among
the nations.
==Chapter 10==
 Israel is a luxuriant vine, that putteth forth his
fruit: according to the abundance of his fruit he hath
multiplied his altars; according to the goodness of their land
they have made goodly pillars. 
 Their heart is divided;
now shall they be found guilty: he will smite their altars, he
will destroy their pillars. 
 Surely now shall they say, We
have no king; for we fear not Jehovah; and the king, what can he
do for us? 
 They speak [vain] words, swearing falsely in
making covenants: therefore judgment springeth up as hemlock in
the furrows of the field. 
 The inhabitants of Samaria
shall be in terror for the calves of Beth-aven; for the people
thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that
rejoiced over it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed
from it. 
 It also shall be carried unto Assyria for a
present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel
shall be ashamed of his own counsel. 
 [As for] Samaria,
her king is cut off, as foam upon the water. 
 The high
places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, 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. 
 O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah:
there they stood; the battle against the children of iniquity
doth not overtake them in Gibeah. 
 When it is my desire,
I will chastise them; and the peoples shall be gathered against
them, when they are bound to their two transgressions. 
 And Ephraim is a heifer that is taught, that loveth to tread out
[the grain]; but I have passed over upon her fair neck: I will
set a rider on Ephraim; Judah shall plow, Jacob shall break his
clods. 
 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap
according to kindness; break up your fallow ground; for it is
time to seek Jehovah, till he come and rain righteousness upon
you. 
 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity;
ye have eaten the fruit of lies; for thou didst trust in thy
way, in the multitude of thy mighty men. 
 Therefore, shall
a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be
destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel in the day of battle:
the mother was dashed in pieces with her children. 
 So
shall Beth-el do unto you because of your great wickedness: at
daybreak shall the king of Israel be utterly cut off.
==Chapter 11==
 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called
my son out of Egypt. 
 The more [the prophets] called them,
the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim,
and burned incense to graven images. 
 Yet I taught Ephraim
to walk; I took them on my arms; but they knew not that I healed
them. 
 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of
love; and I was to them as they that lift up the yoke on their
jaws; and I laid food before them. 
 They shall not return
into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian shall be their king,
because they refused to return [to me]. 
 And the sword
shall fall upon their cities, and shall consume their bars, and
devour [them], because of their own counsels. 
 And my
people are bent on backsliding from me: though they call them to
[him that is] on high, none at all will exalt [him]. 
 How
shall I give thee up, Ephraim? [how] shall I cast thee off,
Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? [how] shall I set thee
as Zeboiim? my heart is turned within me, my compassions are
kindled together. 
 I will not execute the fierceness of
mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God,
and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee; and I will not
come in wrath. 
 They shall walk after Jehovah, who will
roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children shall come
trembling from the west. 
 They shall come trembling as a
bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria; and
I will make them to dwell in their houses, saith Jehovah.
 Ephraim compasseth me about with falsehood, and the
house of Israel with deceit; but Judah yet ruleth with God, and
is faithful with the Holy One.
==Chapter 12==
 Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east
wind: he continually multiplieth lies and desolation; and they
make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.
 Jehovah hath also a controversy with Judah, and will
punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will
he recompense him. 
 In the womb he took his brother by the
heel; and in his manhood he had power with God: 
 yea, he
had power over the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made
supplication unto him: he found him at Beth-el, and there he
spake with us, 
 even Jehovah, the God of hosts; Jehovah is
his memorial [name]. 
 Therefore, turn thou to thy God: keep
kindness and justice, and wait for thy God continually. 
 [He is] a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he
loveth to oppress. 
 And Ephraim said, Surely I am become
rich, I have found me wealth: in all my labors they shall find
in me no iniquity that were sin. 
 But I am Jehovah thy God
from the land of Egypt; I will yet again make thee to dwell in
tents, as in the days of the solemn feast. 
 I have also
spoken unto the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by
the ministry of the prophets have I used similitudes. 
 Is
Gilead iniquity? they are altogether false; in Gilgal they
sacrifice bullocks; yea, their altars are as heaps in the
furrows of the field. 
 And Jacob fled into the field of
Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept
[sheep]. 
 And by a prophet Jehovah brought Israel up out
of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved. 
 Ephraim
hath provoked to anger most bitterly: therefore shall his blood
be left upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto
him.
==Chapter 13==
 When Ephraim spake, there was trembling; he exalted
himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died. 
 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images
of their silver, even idols according to their own
understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen: they say
of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves. 
 Therefore, they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the dew
that passeth early away, as the chaff that is driven with the
whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of
the chimney. 
 Yet I am Jehovah thy God from the land of
Egypt; and thou shalt know no god but me, and besides me there
is no saviour. 
 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the
land of great drought. 
 According to their pasture, so
were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted:
therefore have they forgotten me. 
 Therefore, am I unto
them as a lion; as a leopard will I watch by the way; 
 I
will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and
will rend the caul of their heart; and there will I devour them
like a lioness; the wild beast shall tear them. 
 It is thy
destruction, O Israel, that [thou art] against me, against thy
help. 
 Where now is thy king, that he may save thee in
all thy cities? and thy judges, of whom thou saidst, Give me a
king and princes? 
 I have given thee a king in mine
anger, and have taken him away in my wrath. 
 The iniquity
of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is laid up in store. 
 The
sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an
unwise son; for it is time he should not tarry in the place of
the breaking forth of children. 
 I will ransom them from
the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from death: O death,
where are thy plagues? O Sheol, where is thy destruction?
repentance shall be hid from mine eyes. 
 Though he be
fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the breath
of Jehovah coming up from the wilderness; and his spring shall
become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall make
spoil of the treasure of all goodly vessels. 
 Samaria
shall bear her guilt; for she hath rebelled against her God:
they shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in
pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.
==Chapter 14==
 O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast
fallen by thine iniquity. 
 Take with you words, and return
unto Jehovah: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and accept
that which is good: so will we render [as] bullocks [the
offering of] our lips. 
 Assyria shall not save us; we will
not ride upon horses; neither will we say any more to the work
of our hands, [Ye are] our gods; for in thee the fatherless
findeth mercy. 
 I will heal their backsliding, I will love
them freely; for mine anger is turned away from him. 
 I
will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall blossom as the lily,
and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. 
 His branches shall
spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell
as Lebanon. 
 They that dwell under his shadow shall
return; they shall revive [as] the grain, and blossom as the
vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon. 
 Ephraim [shall say], What have I to do any more with idols? I
have answered, and will regard him: I am like a green fir-tree;
from me is thy fruit found. 
 Who is wise, that he may
understand these things? prudent, that he may know them? for the
ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but
transgressors shall fall therein.