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Hosea 11:6

New American Bible - revised edition

The sword shall rage in his cities: it shall destroy his diviners, and devour them because of their schemings.

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They defiled themselves by their actions, became adulterers by their conduct.

Many times did he rescue them, but they kept rebelling and scheming and were brought low by their own guilt.

Before the vintage, when the flowering has ended, and the blooms are succeeded by ripening grapes, Then comes the cutting of branches with pruning hooks, and the discarding of the lopped-off shoots.

For the fortified city shall be desolate, an abandoned pasture, a forsaken wilderness; There calves shall graze, there they shall lie down, and consume its branches.

Ah! Rebellious children, oracle of the Lord, Who carry out a plan that is not mine, who make an alliance I did not inspire, thus adding sin upon sin;

(The elder and the noble are the head, the prophet who teaches falsehood is the tail.)

They will devour your harvest and your bread, devour your sons and your daughters, Devour your sheep and cattle, devour your vines and fig trees; With their swords they will beat down the fortified cities in which you trust.

A sword upon the Chaldeans—oracle of the Lord— upon the inhabitants of Babylon, her princes and sages!

Her gates sank into the ground; he smashed her bars to bits. Her king and her princes are among the nations; instruction is wanting, Even her prophets do not obtain any vision from the Lord.

The clamor of war shall break out among your people and all your fortresses shall be ravaged As Salman ravaged Beth-arbel on the day of war, smashing mothers along with their children.

It too will be carried to Assyria, as an offering to the great king. Ephraim will be put to shame, Israel will be shamed by his schemes.

For like a stubborn cow, Israel is stubborn; Will the Lord now pasture them, like lambs in a broad meadow?

Ephraim is bound to idols, let him alone!

I will bring against you the sword, the avenger of my covenant. Though you then huddle together in your cities, I will send pestilence among you, till you are delivered to the enemy.

I will lay waste your cities and desolate your sanctuaries, refusing your sweet-smelling offerings.

And you I will scatter among the nations at the point of my drawn sword, leaving your countryside desolate and your cities deserted.

The Lord God has sworn by his very self— an oracle of the Lord, the God of hosts: I abhor the pride of Jacob, I hate his strongholds, and I will hand over the city with everything in it;

I will destroy the sorcery you practice, and there shall no longer be soothsayers among you.

They will besiege you in each of your communities, until the great, fortified walls, in which you trust, come tumbling down all over your land. They will besiege you in every community throughout the land which the Lord, your God, has given you,

Out in the street the sword shall bereave, and at home the terror For the young man and the young woman alike, the nursing babe as well as the gray beard.




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