Old Testament
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
New Testament
Hosea 11
God's Love for Israel
111When Israel was a child, I loved him,
and out of Egypt I called my son.
2The more I called to them,
They kept sacrificing to the Baals
and burning incense to idols.
3Yet I was the one who taught Ephraim to walk.
but they did not realize that it was I who healed them.
For them I became like someone who lifts a yoke off their neck,
and I bent down to feed them.
Instead, an Assyrian will be their king,
because they refused to repent.
6The sword will slash against their cities.
It will destroy the bars of their gates,
and it will devour them because of their plans.
7My people are determined to turn away from me.
Though they call him the Most High,
he certainly will not exalt them.
8How can I give you up, Ephraim?
How can I hand you over, Israel?
How can I make you like Admah?
My heart is changed inside me.
All my compassion is stirred up.
9I will not carry out my burning anger.
I will not destroy Ephraim again,
because I am God, and not man, the Holy One among you.
10They will follow the Lord.
He will roar like a lion.
Yes, he will roar, and his children will come trembling from the west.
11They will come trembling like a bird from Egypt,
and like a dove from the land of Assyria.
I will settle them in their houses, declares the Lord.
Israel Must Repent
12Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood,
and the house of Israel with deceit.
Footnotes
- 11:2 A variant reading is the more they called them, the more they went away from them.
- 11:3 The text of the pronouns in this verse is uncertain. The translation follows the Greek Old Testament.
- 11:4 Literally cords of mankind. The words translated man and love have homonyms meaning leather, so there may be a play on words here.
- 11:5 Not is missing from some manuscripts.
- 11:8 Admah and Zeboiim were daughter cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
- 11:9 Or come in wrath. The Hebrew is difficult.
- 11:12 Literally wanders with. Translations disagree whether the term is negative or positive.
- 11:12 English verse 11:12 is verse 12:1 in Hebrew. In chapter 12 the subsequent Hebrew verse numbers are one higher than the English numbers.