Hosea 13 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ Destruction is thy own, 0 Israel: thy help is only in me.

² 0 Where is thy king? now especially let him save thee in all thy cities: and thy judges, of whom thou saidst: Q Give me kings and princes.

³ 1 I will give thee a king in my wrath, and will take him away in my indignation.

⁴ 2 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up, his sin is hidden.

⁵ 3 The sorrows of a woman in labour snail come upon him, he is an unwise son: for now he shall not stand in the breach of the children.

⁶ 4 I will deliver them out of the hand of death. I will redeem them from death : O death, I will be thy death; O hell, I will be thy bite: comfort is hidden from my eyes.

⁷ 5 Because he shall make a separation between brothers: s the Lord will bring a burning wind that shall rise from the desert, and it shall dry up his springs, and shall make his fountain desolate, and he shall carry off the treasure of every desirable vessel.

⁸ 6 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.

⁹ Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen down by thy iniquity.

¹⁰ Take with you words, and return to the Lord, and say to him: Take away all iniquity, and receive the good: and we will render the calves of our lips.

¹¹ Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more: The works of our hands are our gods, for thou wilt have mercy on the fatherless that is in thee.

¹² I will heal their breaches, I will love them freely: for my wrath is turned away from them.

¹³ I will be as the dew, Israel shall spring as the lily, and his root shall shoot forth as that of Libanus.

¹⁴ His branches shall spread, and his glory shall be as the olive tree: and his smell as that of Libanus.

¹⁵ They shall be converted that sit under his shadow: they shall live upon wheat, and they shall blossom as a vine: his memorial shall be as the wine of Libanus.

¹⁶ Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I will hear him, and I will make him flourish like a green fir tree: from me is thy fruit found.