Hosea 14:1 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Israel, return to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled in your iniquity. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition O ISRAEL, return to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled and fallen, [visited by calamity] due to your iniquity. American Standard Version (1901) O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Common English Bible Return, Israel, to the LORD your God; you have stumbled because of your wickedness. Catholic Public Domain Version Let Samaria perish, because she has urged her God towards bitterness. Let them perish by the sword, let their little ones be thrown down, and let their pregnant women be cut in two. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Let Samaria perish, because she hath stirred up her God to bitterness: let them perish by the sword, let their little ones be dashed, and let the women with child be ripped up. |
and Hazael asked, ‘Why is my lord weeping? ’ He replied, ‘Because I know the evil you will do to the people of Israel. You will set their fortresses on fire. You will kill their young men with the sword. You will dash their children to pieces. You will rip open their pregnant women.’
The Lord will strike Egypt, striking and healing. Then they will turn to the Lord, and he will be receptive to their prayers and heal them.
Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Recognise how evil and bitter it is for you to abandon the Lord your God and to have no fear of me. This is the declaration of the Lord God of Armies.
If you return, Israel – this is the Lord’s declaration – you will return to me, if you remove your abhorrent idols from my presence and do not waver,
Your elder sister was Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you, and your younger sister was Sodom, who lived with her daughters to the south of you.
Tell them, “As I live #– #this is the declaration of the Lord God #– #I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked person should turn from his way and live. Repent, repent of your evil ways! Why will you die, house of Israel? ”
‘ “So when I tell the wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ but he repents of his sin and does what is just and right #– #
Sow righteousness for yourselves and reap faithful love; break up your unploughed ground. It is time to seek the Lord until he comes and sends righteousness on you like the rain.
But you must return to your God. Maintain love and justice, and always put your hope in God.
But Ephraim thinks, ‘How rich I have become; I made it all myself. In all my earnings, no one can find any iniquity in me that I can be punished for! ’
They feed on the sin of my people; they have an appetite for their iniquity.
Israel’s arrogance testifies against them. , Both Israel and Ephraim stumble because of their iniquity; even Judah will stumble with them.
Come, let’s return to the Lord. For he has torn us, and he will heal us; he has wounded us, and he will bind up our wounds.
I have seen Ephraim like Tyre, planted in a meadow, so Ephraim will bring out his children to the executioner.
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.
The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing the Ammonites for three crimes, even four, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.