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1130 Prophecy of Osee

2 And I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of knowledge, I will reject thee, that thou shalt not
silver, and for a core of barley, and for half a core do the office of priesthood to me: and thou hast
of barley. forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget
3 And I said to her: Thou shalt wait for me thy children.
many days: thou shalt not play tbe harlot, and 7 According to the multitude of them, so have
thou shalt be no man’s, and I also will wait for they sinned against me: I will change their glory
thee. into shame.
4 For the children of Israel shall sit many days 8 They shall eat the sins of my people, and
without king, and without prince, and without shall lift up their souls to their iniquity.
sacrifice, and without altar, and without ephod, 9 And there shall be like people like priest:
and without theraphim. and I will visit their ways upon them, and I will
5 And after this the children of Israel shall repay them their devices.
return and shall seek the Lord, their God, and 10 And they shall eat and shall not be filled:
David, their king: and they shall fear the Lord, they have committed fornication, and have not
and his goodness, in the last days. ceased: because they have forsaken the Lord in
not observing the law.
11 Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness,
Chapter 4 take away the understanding.
12 My people have consulted their stocks, and
Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel, their staff hath declared unto them: for the spirit
for the Lord shall enter into judgment with the of fornication hath deceived them, and they have
inhabitants of the land: for there is no truth, and committed fornication against their God.
there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of 13 They offered sacrifice upon the tops of the
God in the land. mountains, and burnt incense upon the hills: un-
2 Cursing, and lying, and killing, and theft, der the oak, and the poplar, and the turpen-
and adultery, have overflowed, and blood hath tine tree, because the shadow thereof was good:
touched blood. therefore shall your daughters commit fornica-
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every tion, aud your spouses shall be adulteresses.
one that dwelleth in it shall languish with the 14 I will not visit upon your daughters, when
heat of the field, and with the fowls of the air: they shall commit fornication, and upon your
yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be gathered spouses when they shall commit adultery: be-
together. cause themselves conversed with harlots, and of-
4 But yet let not any man judge: and let not a fered sacrifice with the effeminate, and the peo-
man be rebuked: for thy people are as they that ple that doth not understand shall be beaten.
contradict the priest. 15 If thou play the harlot, O Israel, at least let
5 And thou shalt fall today, and the prophet not Juda offend: and go ye not into Galgal, and
also shall fall with thee: in the night I have made come not up into Bethaven, and do not swear:
thy mother to be silent. The Lord liveth.
6 My people have been silent, because they 16 For Israel hath gone astray like a wanton
had no knowledge: because thou hast rejected heifer now will the Lord feed them, as a lamb in