Hosea 11 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ I will not execute the fierceness of my wrath: I will not return to destroy Ephraim: because I am God, and not man: the holy one in the midst of thee, and I will not enter into the city.

² 0 They shall walk after the Lord, he shall roar as a lion: because he shall roar, and the children of the sea shall fear.

³ 1 And they shall fly away like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove out of the land of the Assyrians: and I will place them in their own houses, saith the Lord.

⁴ 2 Ephraim hath compassed me about with denials, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Juda went down as a witness with God, and is faithful with the saints.

⁵ Ephraim feedeth on the wind, and followeth the burning heat: all the day long he multiplied lies and desolation: and he hath made a covenant with the Assyrians, and carried oil into Egypt.

⁶ Therefore there is a judgment of the Lord with Juda, and a visitation for Jacob: he will render to him according to his ways, and according to his devices.

⁷ In the womb he supplanted his brother: and by his strength he had success with an angel.

⁸ And he prevailed over the angel, and was strengthened: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us.

⁹ Even the Lord the God of hosts, the Lord is his memorial.

¹⁰ Therefore turn thou to thy God : keep mercy and judgment, and hope in thy God always.

¹¹ He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression.

¹² And Ephraim said: But yet I am be- come rich, I have found me an idol: all my labours shall not find me the iniquity that I have committed.