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Hosea 2:13

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

And I will punish her for the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense. She put on her rings and her jewellery and followed her lovers, but she forgot me. This is the  Lord’s declaration.

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When they had pasture, they became satisfied; they were satisfied, and their hearts became proud. Therefore they forgot me.


The Israelites did what was evil in the Lord’s sight; they forgot the Lord their God  and worshipped the Baals and the Asherahs.


When Ephraim spoke,  there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel. But he incurred guilt through Baal  and died.


Israel called to the Egyptians even as Israel was leaving them. They kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols.


‘ “Do you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known?


The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have come. Let Israel recognise it! The prophet is a fool, and the inspired man is insane, because of the magnitude of your iniquity and hostility.


Israel has forgotten his Maker  and built palaces; Judah has also multiplied fortified cities. I will send fire on their cities, and it will consume their citadels.


My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will reject you  from serving as my priest. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your sons.


They sacrifice on the mountaintops, and they burn offerings on the hills, and under oaks, poplars, and terebinths, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters act promiscuously and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.


She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them. Then she will think, ‘I will go back to my former husband, for then it was better for me than now.’


Yes, their mother is promiscuous; she conceived them and acted shamefully. For she thought, ‘I will follow my lovers, the men who give me my food and water, my wool and flax, my oil and drink.’


Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: ‘Because you have forgotten me  and cast me behind your back,  you must bear the consequences of your indecency and promiscuity.’


People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood.  You take interest and profit on a loan and brutally extort your neighbours.  You have forgotten me.  This is the declaration of the Lord God.


You also took your beautiful jewellery made from the gold and silver I had given you, and you made male images so that you could engage in prostitution with them.


‘Therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who tend my people: You have scattered my flock,  banished them, and have not attended to them.  I am about to attend to you because of your evil acts’ #– #this is the Lord’s declaration.


Yet my people have forgotten me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways on the ancient roads, and make them walk on new paths, not the raised road.


Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, Judah,  and the altars you have set up to Shame  ,  #– #altars to burn incense to Baal #– #as numerous as the streets of Jerusalem.


Can a young woman forget her jewellery or a bride her wedding sash? Yet my people have forgotten me for countless days.


For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and you have failed to remember the rock of your strength; therefore you will plant beautiful plants and set out cuttings from exotic vines.


Such is the destiny  of all who forget God; the hope of the godless  will perish.


He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed  and re-established the altars for Baal. He made an Asherah,  as King Ahab of Israel had done;  he also bowed in worship to all the stars in the sky  and served them.


Jehu eliminated Baal worship from Israel,


Ahaziah  had fallen through the latticed window of his upstairs room in Samaria  and was injured. So he sent messengers, instructing them, ‘Go and enquire of Baal-zebub,  , the god of Ekron,  whether I will recover from this injury.’


But they forgot the Lord their God, so he handed them over to Sisera  commander of the army of Hazor, to the Philistines, and to the king of Moab.  These enemies fought against them.


Then the Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.  They worshipped the Baals and the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and the Philistines.  They abandoned the Lord and did not worship him.


You ignored the Rock who gave you birth; you forgot the God who gave birth to you.


be careful not to forget the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.


Now go, lead the people to the place I told you about; see, my angel will go before you. But on the day I settle accounts, I will hold them accountable for their sin.’


for your iniquities and the iniquities of your   ancestors together,’ says the Lord. ‘Because they burned incense on the mountains and reproached me on the hills, I will reward them fully for their former deeds.’


I put a ring in your nose,  earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.


I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sound of joy and gladness and the voices of the groom and the bride,  for the land will become a desolate waste.


The roads to Zion   mourn, for no one comes to the appointed festivals. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she herself is bitter.


The elders have left the city gate, the young men, their music.


I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cause everyone  to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make that grief like mourning for an only son and its outcome like a bitter day.





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