The Hebrew Prophets

And I will be like a moth to Ephraim: and like rottenness to the house of Juda.

And Ephraim saw his sickness, and Juda his band: and Ephraim went to the Assyrian, and sent to the avenging king: and he shall not be able to heal you, neither shall he be able to take off the band from you.

For I will be like a lioness to Ephraim, and like a lion's whelp to the house of Juda: I, I will catch, and go: I will take away, and there is none that can rescue.

I will go and return to my place: until you are consumed, and seek my face.

In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord.

For he hath taken us, and he will heal us: he will strike, and he will cure us.

He will revive us after two days: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. We shall know, and we shall follow on, that we may know the Lord. His going forth is prepared as the morning light, and he will come to us as the early and the latter rain to the earth.

What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do to thee, O Juda? your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth away in the morning.

For this reason have I hewed them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments shall go forth as the light.

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.

But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant, there have they dealt treacherously against me.

Galaad is a city of workers of idols, supplanted with blood.

And like the jaws of highway robbers, they conspire with the priests who murder in the way those that pass out of Sichem: for they have wrought wickedness.

I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the fornications of Ephraim there: Israel is defiled.

And thou also, O Juda, set thee a harvest, when I shall bring back the captivity of my people.

When I would have healed Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria, for they have committed falsehood, and the thief is come in to steal, the robber is without.

And lest they may say in their hearts, that I remember all their wickedness: their own devices now have beset them about, they have been done before my face.

They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and the princes with their lies.

They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker: the city rested a little from the mingling of the leaven, till the whole was leavened.

The day of our king, the princes began to be mad with wine: he stretched out his hand with scorners.

Because they have applied their heart like an oven, when he laid snares for them: he slept all the night baking them, in the morning he himself was heated as a flaming fire.

They were all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges: all their kings have fallen: there is none amongst them that calleth unto me.

Ephraim himself is mixed among the nations: Ephraim is become as bread baked under the ashes, that is not turned.

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knew it not: yea, grey hairs also are spread about upon him, and he is ignorant of it.

And the pride of Israel shall be humbled before his face: and they have not returned to the Lord their God, nor have they sought him in all these.