The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Hosea 12:7 (NIV)

The merchant uses dishonest scales
and loves to defraud.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 12:8 (NIV)

Ephraim boasts,
‘I am very rich; I have become wealthy.
With all my wealth they will not find in me
any iniquity or sin.’

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 12:9 (NIV)

‘I have been the Lord your God
ever since you came out of Egypt;
I will make you live in tents again,
as in the days of your appointed festivals.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 12:10 (NIV)

I spoke to the prophets,
gave them many visions
and told parables through them.’

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 12:11 (NIV)

Is Gilead wicked?
Its people are worthless!
Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal?
Their altars will be like piles of stones
on a ploughed field.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 12:12 (NIV)

Jacob fled to the country of Aram;
Israel served to get a wife,
and to pay for her he tended sheep.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 12:13 (NIV)

The Lord used a prophet to bring Israel up from Egypt,
by a prophet he cared for him.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 12:14 (NIV)

But Ephraim has aroused his bitter anger;
his Lord will leave on him the guilt of his bloodshed
and will repay him for his contempt.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 13:1 (NIV)

When Ephraim spoke, people trembled;
he was exalted in Israel.
But he became guilty of Baal worship and died.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 13:2 (NIV)

Now they sin more and more;
they make idols for themselves from their silver,
cleverly fashioned images,
all of them the work of craftsmen.
It is said of these people,
‘They offer human sacrifices!
They kiss calf-idols!’

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 13:3 (NIV)

Therefore they will be like the morning mist,
like the early dew that disappears,
like chaff swirling from a threshing-floor,
like smoke escaping through a window.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 13:4 (NIV)

‘But I have been the Lord your God
ever since you came out of Egypt.
You shall acknowledge no God but me,
no Saviour except me.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 13:5 (NIV)

I cared for you in the wilderness,
in the land of burning heat.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 13:6 (NIV)

When I fed them, they were satisfied;
when they were satisfied, they became proud;
then they forgot me.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 13:7 (NIV)

So I will be like a lion to them,
like a leopard I will lurk by the path.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 13:8 (NIV)

Like a bear robbed of her cubs,
I will attack them and rip them open;
like a lion I will devour them –
a wild animal will tear them apart.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 13:9 (NIV)

‘You are destroyed, Israel,
because you are against me, against your helper,

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 13:10 (NIV)

Where is your king, that he may save you?
Where are your rulers in all your towns,
of whom you said,
“Give me a king and princes”?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 13:11 (NIV)

So in my anger I gave you a king,
and in my wrath I took him away.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Hosea 13:12 (NIV)

The guilt of Ephraim is stored up,
his sins are kept on record.