and might not be as their fathers— a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
Hosea 4:16 - Y'all Version Bible For Israel is stubborn, stubborn like a heifer. Then how will YHWH feed them like a lamb in a meadow? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For Israel has behaved stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. How then should he expect to be fed and treated by the Lord like a lamb in a large pasture? American Standard Version (1901) For Israel hath behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer: now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large place. Common English Bible Like a stubborn cow Israel is stubborn. Now the LORD will tend them, as the LORD tends a lamb in a pasture. Catholic Public Domain Version For Israel has gone astray like a wanton heifer; so now the Lord will pasture them like a young lamb in a wide expanse. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For Israel hath gone astray like a wanton heifer: now will the Lord feed them, as a lamb in a spacious place. |
and might not be as their fathers— a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
He will wind-wind you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a vast country. There you will die, and there the chariots of your glory will be, you disgrace of your lord’s house.
Hᴇ will give the rain for your seed to sow the ground; and bread of the yield of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.
Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name’s sake, YHWH; for our rebellions are many. We have sinned against you.
YHWH said to me, “Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
Moreover, YHWH said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and has played the prostitute there.
I saw when, for this very cause, that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, had no fear, but she also went and played the prostitute.
“I have heard-heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned, for you are YHWH my God.
Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backsliding has increased.
But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit. They refuse to return.
Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh, so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah will plow. Jacob will break his clods.
The sword will fall on their cities, and will destroy the bars of their gates, and will put an end to their plans.
My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won’t exalt them.
I will scatter y’all among the nations, and I will draw out a sword after y’all. Y’all’s land will become desolate, and y’all’s cities will become waste.
But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
“It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king, for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to YHWH all night.