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Hosea 13:1-16 — The Lord's Anger Against Israel

Hos.13.1-16

¹When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel. But he incurred guilt through Baal, and he died. ²And now they sin more and more, and they make for themselves cast images from their silver, idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of craftsmen. They say of them, “Those who offer human sacrifice kiss the calves!” ³Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the early dew that passes away, like chaff driven by the wind from the threshing floor, and like smoke from a window. ⁴Yet I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but Me, and there is no savior besides Me. ⁵I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought. ⁶When they grazed, they became satisfied; they were satisfied, and their heart became proud. Therefore they forgot Me. ⁷So I will be like a lion to them; like a leopard I will lurk by the path. ⁸I will attack them like a bear robbed of her cubs, and I will tear open the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness; the wild beast will tear them apart. ⁹You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against Me, against your helper . ¹⁰Where then is your king, that he may save you in all your cities? And where are your judges, of whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”? ¹¹I gave you a king in My anger, and I took him away in My wrath. ¹²The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is stored away. ¹³The pains of childbirth come upon him, but he is an unwise son; for when the time arrives, he does not present himself at the opening of the womb. ¹⁴I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your destruction? Compassion is hidden from My eyes. ¹⁵Even though he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come, a wind of the LORD rising up from the wilderness; and his spring will become dry, and his fountain will be dried up. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article. ¹⁶Samaria will bear her guilt, for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.

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4/11/2026

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