Hosea 11:2 - Catholic Public Domain Version They called them, and so they departed before their face. They offered victims to the Baals, and they sacrificed to graven images. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The more [the prophets] called to them, the more they went from them; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning incense to the graven images. American Standard Version (1901) The more the prophets called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. Common English Bible The more I called them, the further they went from me; they kept sacrificing to the Baals, and they burned incense to idols. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version As they called them, they went away from before their face: they offered victims to Baalim, and sacrificed to idols. English Standard Version 2016 The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols. |
And he ascended to the altar, which he had raised up in Bethel, on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, the day that he had decided in his own heart. And he made a solemnity to the sons of Israel, and he ascended to the altar, so that he might burn incense.
Yet truly now, send and gather to me all of Israel, on Mount Carmel, with the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal, and the four hundred prophets of the sacred groves, who eat from the table of Jezebel."
And you continued to forbear them for many years. And you contended with them by your Spirit, through the hand of your prophets. And they did not listen, and so you delivered them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
Your iniquities are joined with the iniquities of your fathers, says the Lord. For they have sacrificed upon the mountains, and they have offended me upon the hills. And so, I will measure back to them, from their first work, into their sinews.
Yet my people have forgotten me, offering useless libations, and stumbling in their ways, in the paths of the world, so that they walk by these on an unmarked route.
"Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Go, and say to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Will you not accept discipline, so that you obey my words, says the Lord?
But they did not listen, nor did they incline their ear, so that they would convert from their evil, and so that they would not sacrifice to strange gods.
And my people will long for my return. But a yoke will be imposed on them together, which will not be taken away.
And I will inflict on her the days of the Baals, for whom she burned incense, and ornamented herself with earrings and necklace, and went after her lovers, and forgot about me," says the Lord.
They have offered sacrifice on the tops of the mountains and burnt incense on the hills, under the oak, and the poplar, and the terebinth tree, because its shadow was good; therefore, your daughters will commit fornication and your spouses will be adulteresses.
Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, saying: Thus says the Lord of hosts: Turn from your evil ways and from your wicked thoughts. But they did not heed, and neither did they pay attention to me, says the Lord.
But they were not willing to pay attention, and they turned aside their shoulder to depart, and they pressed upon their ears, so that they would not hear.
Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets, and you stone those who are sent to you. Daily, I wanted to gather together your children, in the manner of a bird with her nest under her wings, but you were not willing!
And this is the judgment: that the Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness more than light. For their works were evil.
Stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you ever resist the Holy Spirit. Just as your fathers did, so also do you do.
But the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, joining new sins to old, and they served idols, the Baals and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria and Sidon, and of Moab and the sons of Ammon, and the Philistines. And they abandoned the Lord, and they did not worship him.
And they did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they forgot their God, while serving the Baals and Ashtaroth.