Osee 13

¹Ephraim speaking, horror invaded Israel: & he sinned in Baal, and died.

²And now they have added to sin: and they have made to themselves a molten of their silver as it were the similitude of idols, the whole is the work of crafts-men: to these they say: Immolate men adoring calves.

³Therefore they shall be as a morning cloud, & as a morning dew passing away, as dust caught with a whirlwind out of the floor, and as smoke out of the chimney.

⁴But I the Lord thy God out of the Land of Ægypt: and God beside me thou shalt not know, and there is no Saviour beside me.

⁵I knew thee in the desert, in the land of wilderness.

⁶According to their pastures they were filled, and were made full: they have lifted up their heart, and have forgotten me.

⁷And I will be unto them as a lioness, as a leopard in the way of the Assyrians.

⁸I will meet them as a bear her young being violently taken away, and I will break in sunder the inner parts of their liver: and will consume them there as a lion, the beast of the field shall tear them.

⁹Perdition is thine o Israel: only in me thy help.

¹⁰Where is thy king? Now especially let him save thee in all thy cities: and thy judges, of whom thou saidst: Give me kings, and princes.

¹¹I will give thee a king in my fury, and will take him away in mine indignation.

¹²The iniquity of Ephraim is bound together, his sin is hidden.

¹³The sorrows of a woman in travail shall come to him, he a son not wise: for now he shall not stand the confraction of the children.

¹⁴Out of the hand of death I will deliver them, from death I will redeem them: I will be thy death o death, thy bite will I be o hell, consolation is hidden from mine eyes.

¹⁵Because he shall divide between brethren: our Lord will bring a burning wind rising from the desert: and it shall dry up his veins, and shall make his fountain desolate, and he shall spoil the treasure of every vessel that is to be desired.