For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and fat land which you gave before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.
Hosea 13:6 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition According to their pasture, so were they filled [when they fed, they grew full], and their heart was lifted up; therefore have they forgotten Me. American Standard Version (1901) According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted: therefore have they forgotten me. Common English Bible When I fed them, they were satisfied; and their hearts became proud; therefore, they forgot me. Catholic Public Domain Version According to their pastures, they have been filled up and have been satisfied. And they have lifted up their heart, and they have forgotten me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version According to their pastures they were filled, and were made full: and they lifted up their heart, and have forgotten me. |
For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and fat land which you gave before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.
The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
lest I be full, deny you, and say, 'Who is the LORD?' or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
For you have forgotten the God of your yeshu`ah, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.
How can I pardon you? your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses.
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore bear you also your lewdness and your prostitution.
by your great wisdom [and] by your traffic have you increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches--
Yisra'el is a luxuriant vine that puts forth his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.
Efrayim said, *Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won't find in me any iniquity that is sin.*
I will visit on her the days of the Ba`alim, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me,* says the LORD.
She will follow after her lovers, but she won't overtake them; and she will seek them, but won't find them. Then she will say, 'I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.'
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no Kohen to me. Because you have forgotten your God's law, I will also forget your children.
As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.
For I will be to Efrayim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Yehudah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.
They haven't cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.
For Yisra'el has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Yehudah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses.*
They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn't approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.
Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.