The Hebrew Prophets

A tumult shall arise among thy people: and all thy fortresses shall be destroyed as Salmana was destroyed, by the house of him that judged Baal in the day of battle, the mother being dashed in pieces upon her children.

So hath Bethel done to you, because of the evil of your iniquities.

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.

As they called them, they went away from before their face: they offered victims to Baalim, and sacrificed to idols.

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.

He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king: because they would not be converted.

The sword hath begun in his cities, and it shall consume his chosen men, and shall devour their heads.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

If Galaad be an idol, then in vain were they in Galgal offering sacrifices with bullocks: for their altars also are as heaps in the furrows of the field.