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Hosea 6:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

What am I going to do with you, Ephraim? What am I going to do with you, Judah? Your love is like the morning mist and like the early dew that vanishes.

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Therefore, they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing-floor, or like smoke from a window.


How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I surrender you, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? I have had a change of heart; my compassion is stirred!


But he has no root and is short-lived. When distress or persecution   comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.


Today you repented and did what pleased me, each of you proclaiming freedom for his neighbour. You made a covenant before me  at the house that bears my name.


Therefore, this is what the Lord of Armies says: I am about to refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of my dear   people?


But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and have gone away.


Should I not punish them for these things? This is the  Lord’s declaration. Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?


Why should I forgive you? Your children have abandoned me and sworn by those who are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery; they gashed themselves  at the   prostitute’s house.


I thought, ‘How I long to make you my sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance  of all the nations.’ I thought, ‘You will call me “My Father” and never turn away from me.’


Yet in spite of all this, her treacherous sister Judah didn’t return to me with all her heart   #– #only in pretence.’ This is the Lord’s declaration.


when I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim  and the crimes of Samaria will be exposed. For they practise fraud; a thief breaks in; a raiding party pillages outside.


The Israelites again did what was evil in the Lord’s sight. He gave King Eglon of Moab  power over Israel, because they had done what was evil in the Lord’s sight.





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