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== Hoshea (Book of Hosea), Chapter 13 ==

<named id="1"/>1 When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he became guilty through Baal, he died.

<named id="2"/>2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, according to their own understanding, even idols, all of them the work of the craftsmen; of them they say: 'They that sacrifice men kiss calves.'

<named id="3"/>3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the dew that early passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the wind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the window.

<named id="4"/>4 Yet I am HaShem thy G-d from the land of Egypt; and thou knowest no G-d but Me, and beside Me there is no saviour.

<named id="5"/>5 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

<named id="6"/>6 When they were fed, they became full, they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten Me.

<named id="7"/>7 Therefore am I become unto them as a lion; as a leopard will I watch by the way;

<named id="8"/>8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the enclosure of their heart; and there will I devour them like a lioness; the wild beast shall tear them.

<named id="9"/>9 It is thy destruction, O Israel, that thou art against Me, against thy help.

<named id="10"/>10 Ho, now, thy king, that he may save thee in all thy cities! and thy judges, of whom thou saidst: 'Give me a king and princes!'

<named id="11"/>11 I give thee a king in Mine anger, and take him away in My wrath.

<named id="12"/>12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is laid up in store.

<named id="13"/>13 The throes of a travailing woman shall come upon him; he is an unwise son; for it is time he should not tarry in the place of the breaking forth of children.

<named id="14"/>14 Shall I ransom them from the power of the nether-world? Shall I redeem them from death? Ho, thy plagues, O death! Ho, thy destruction, O netherworld! Repentance be hid from Mine eyes!

<named id="15"/>15 For though he be fruitful among the reed-plants, an east wind shall come, the wind of HaShem coming up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up; he shall spoil the treasure of all precious vessels.

<named id="16"/>1 Samaria shall bear her guilt, for she hath rebelled against her G-d; they shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

== See also ==
* [[Hoshea 12|Previous Chapter]]
* [[Hoshea 13 Commentaries]]
* [[Hoshea 14|Next Chapter]]

== References ==
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