God

Ephraim, as I saw, was a Tyre, founded in beauty: and Ephraim shall bring out his children to the murderer.

Give them, O Lord. What wilt thou give them? Give them a womb without children, and dry breasts.

All their wickedness is in Galgal, for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their devices I will cast them forth out of my house: I will love them no more, all their princes are revolters.

Ephraim is struck, their root is dried up, they shall yield no fruit. And if they should have issue, I will slay the best beloved fruit of their womb.

My God will cast them away, because they hearkened not to him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

Their heart is divided: now they shall perish: he shall break down their idols, he shall destroy their altars.

For now they shall say: We have no king: because we fear not the Lord: and what shall a king do to us?

According to my desire, I will chastise them: and the nations shall be gathered together against them, when they shall be chastised for their two iniquities.

Ephraim is a heifer taught to love to tread out corn, but I passed over upon the beauty of her neck: I will ride upon Ephraim, Juda shall plough, Jacob shall break the furrows for himself.

Sow for yourselves in justice, and reap in the mouth of mercy, break up your fallow ground: but the time to seek the Lord is, when he shall come that shall teach you justice.

As the morning passeth, so hath the king of Israel passed away. Because Israel was a child, and I loved him: and I called my son out of Egypt.

And I was like a foster father to Ephraim, I carried them in my arms: and they knew not that I healed them.

I will draw them with the cords of Adam, with the bands of love: and I will be to them as one that taketh off the yoke on their jaws: and I put his meat to him that he might eat.

And my people shall long for my return: but a yoke shall be put upon them together, which shall not be taken off.

How shall I deal with thee, O Ephraim, shall I protect thee, O Israel? how shall I make thee as Adama, shall I set thee as Seboim? my heart is turned within me, my repentance is stirred up.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt, will yet cause thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the feast.

And I have spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and I have used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets.