Hosea 12 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt, will yet cause thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the feast.

² 0 And I have spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and I have used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets.

³ 1 If Galaad be an idol, then in vain were they in Galgal offering sacrifices with bullocks: for their altars also are as heaps in the furrows of the field.

⁴ 2 Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and was a keeper for a wife.

⁵ 3 But the Lord by a prophet brought Israel out of Egypt: and he was pre- served by a prophet.

⁶ 4 Ephraim hath provoked me to wrath with his bitterness, and his blood shall come upon him, and his Lord will render his reproach unto him.

⁷ When Ephraim spoke, a horror seized Israel: and he sinned in Baal and died.

⁸ And now they have sinned more and more : and they have made to themselves a molten thing of their silver as the likeness of idols: the whole is the work of craftsmen: to these that say: Sacrifice men, ye that adore calves.

⁹ Therefore they shall be as a morning aloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the dust that is driven with a whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

¹⁰ But I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt: and thou shalt know no God but me, and there is no saviour beside me.

¹¹ I knew thee in the desert, in the land of the wilderness.

¹² According to their pastures they were filled, and were made full: and they lifted up their heart, and have forgotten me.

¹³ And I will be to them as a lioness, as a leopard in the way of the Assyrians.

¹⁴ I will meet them as a bear that is robbed of her whelps, and I will rend the inner parts of their liver: and I will devour them there as a lion, the beast of the field shall tear them.