Aramaic Peshitta Bible Repository
Lamsa OT - Hosea
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1 ¶ THE word of the LORD that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jereboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.""
2 ¶ The beginning of the word of the LORD that came to Hosea: The LORD said to Hosea, Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms; for the land will commit great whoredom in departing from the LORD. 3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; who conceived and bore him a son. 4 And the LORD said to him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and I will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel. 5 And it shall come to pass on that day, I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel. 6 And she conceived again and bore a daughter. And the LORD said to him, Call her name La-ethrakhmath (not beloved); for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; and I will utterly cause them to be carried away captive. 7 But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow nor by sword nor by battle nor by horses nor by horsemen.""
8 ¶ Now when she had weaned La-ethrakhmath, she conceived again and bore a son. 9 Then the LORD said to me, Call his name La-ammi (not my people); for you are not my people and I will not be your God. 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people; there it shall be said to them, You are the sons of the living God. 11 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and they shall appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land; for great is the day of Jezreel.""
2:1 ¶ SAY to your brethren, Ammi, my people; and to your sisters, Rekhimtha, beloved. 2 Plead with your mother, plead; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight and her adulteries from between her breasts, 3 Lest I strip her naked and leave her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness and as a dry land, and cause her to die with thirst. 4 And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are the children of whoredoms. 5 For their mother has played the harlot; she that conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, I will go after my lovers who give me my bread and my water, my clothes and my linen, my oil and everything that I need.""
6 ¶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns, and fence her paths so that she shall not find her paths. 7 And she shall follow after her lovers and shall not overtake them, and she shall seek them, but shall not find them; then shall she say, I will return and go to my first husband; for it was better with me then than now. 8 For she did not know that it was I who gave her wheat and wine and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, some of which they made for the images of Baal. 9 Therefore I will return and take away my wheat in its time and my wine in its season, and will take away my wool and my linen which I gave her to cover her nakedness. 10 And now I will uncover her nakedness in the presence of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hands. 11 And I will cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. 12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, These are presents which my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. 13 And I will punish her for the evils of the days of Baal, in which she burned incense to him and decked herself with her earrings and her pearls and went after her lovers and forgot me, says the LORD.""
14 ¶ Therefore, behold, I will comfort her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak lovingly to her. 15 And I will give her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor that it may open her understanding; and she shall be humbled there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. 16 And it shall be on that day, says the LORD, that you shall call me, my husband, and shall call me no more Baali. 17 For I will take away the name of Baal out of her mouth, and they shall no more remember his name. 18 And on that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of the air and with the creeping things of the ground; and I will do away with the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and I will make them to dwell in safety. 19 And I will betroth you to me for ever; yea, I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice and in lovingkindness and in mercy. 20 So I will betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know the LORD. 21 And it shall come to pass on that day, says the LORD, I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth; 22 And the earth shall answer the grain and the wine and the oil; and they shall answer Jezreel. 23 And I will sow her for myself in the earth; and I will have mercy on La-ethrakhmath, not beloved, and I will call La-ammi, not my people, Ammi, my people, and they shall say, Thou art my God.""
3:1 ¶ THEN the LORD said to me, Go again, love a woman who is fond of doing evil things and an adulteress, as the LORD loves the children of Israel, though they have turned and have gone after other gods, and love raisin cakes. 2 So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and half of barley; 3 And I said to her, You shall dwell as my wife for many days; you shall not play the harlot, and you shall not be for other men; so will I also be for you. 4 For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without a king and without a ruler and without a sacrifice and without an altar, and without the one who wears an ephod and burns incense. 5 Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the LORD their God and David their king; and they shall know the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.""
4:1 ¶ HEAR the word of the LORD, O children of Israel; for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no justice or mercy or knowledge of God in the land; 2 But cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they have increased and they mix blood with blood. 3 Therefore the land shall mourn, and all its inhabitants shall languish, even the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air; and the fish of the sea also shall perish. 4 Because none judges nor reproves another, for your people is engaged in controversy like a priest. 5 Therefore you shall stumble in the day, and the prophet of your people also shall stumble in the night, and yet your mother keeps silence.""
6 ¶ My people are silent for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from the priesthood; seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children. 7 According to the multitude of them, so they have sinned against me; they changed their honor into shame. 8 They devoured my people unmercifully, and they have engulfed themselves in their iniquity. 9 The priest has become common like the people; and I will punish them for their ways and reward them for their deeds. 10 For they shall eat and not be satisfied; they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase, because they have forsaken the LORD. 11 And they love whoredom, and wine and drunkenness take away their heart.""
12 ¶ My people ask counsel of their own imagination, and their staff declares to them the directions; for the spirit of whoredom has caused them to go astray, so they have turned from their God. 13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinth, because their shadow is good; therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom and your brides shall commit adultery. 14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom nor your brides when they commit adultery; for they themselves are mingled with whores, and they sacrifice with shameless harlots; therefore a people that does not understand embraces the harlot. 15 As for you, O Israel, you shall not condemn Judah; nor shall you go to Gilgal, neither come up to Beth-aon; nor shall you say, The LORD lives. 16 For as a heifer that slides back from the yoke, so Israel balks; now the LORD will feed them like lambs in a wide pasture. 17 Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone. 18 They all commit whoredom, and they love shame and idolatry. 19 Let the wind rend asunder their robes; let them be ashamed of their altars.""
5:1 ¶ HEAR this, O priests; and give ear, O house of Israel; and listen, O house of the king; for the judgment is for you, because you have been a snare to prophets and a net spread upon Tabor. 2 And the hunters who hunt have laid hidden snares, but I will chastise them all. 3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now Ephraim has committed whoredom, and Israel is defiled. 4 Their evil devices will not permit them to turn to their God; for the spirit of whoredom is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD. 5 And the pride of Israel shall be humbled before his presence; and Israel and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them. 6 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him, because he has withdrawn himself from them. 7 They have dealt falsely with the LORD, for they have begotten alien children.""
8 ¶ Blow the trumpet in Ramtha, blow the horn in Ramtha; cry aloud at Beth-aon; the enemy is after you, O Benjamin. 9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the clay of rebuke; among the tribes of Israel I have made known that which shall surely be. 10 The princes of Judah were like those who remove a landmark; therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water. 11 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly went after vain things. 12 Therefore I will be as a tempest to Ephraim, and to the house of Judah as a lion. 13 When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah saw his wounds, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to the great king; but he cannot heal you nor cure you of your wounds. 14 For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah; I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue. 15 I will return and go to my place, till they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face; in their affliction they will seek me early.""
6:1 ¶ THEY shall say, Come, let us return and go to the LORD who has smitten us, and he will heal us; he has wounded us, and he will bind us up. 2 After two days he will revive us, and on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his presence. 3 Then shall we know to follow after the knowledge of the LORD; his going forth is prepared as the dawn; and he shall come to us as the rain, as the spring rain which waters the earth.""
4 ¶ O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goes away. 5 Therefore have I cut off the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth; and my judgments shall go forth as the light. 6 For I desired mercy and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. 7 But they like men have transgressed my covenant; there have they dealt treacherously against me. 8 Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity, and wallows in blood. Your strength is as that of a robber. 9 The priests have joined them on the way, and they have destroyed Shechem, because they have committed iniquities. 10 I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: there Ephraim committed whoredom, and Israel was defiled. 11 And you also, O Judah, set a day of harvest for yourself when I will bring back the captivity of my people.""
7:1 ¶ WHEN I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was revealed and the wickedness of Samaria; for they committed falsehood in my presence; and the thief came in, and the robber robbed men in the streets. 2 And they never said in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness; now their own devices have beset them about; they were before my face. 3 They have made the kings glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. 4 Their rulers are all adulterers, their passion is as an oven heated to bake bread, the baker who kneads the dough ceases from going to the city, and waits until it is leavened. 5 The day they start to give counsel, the princes begin to become inflamed with wine; they stretch out their hands with wicked men. 6 Because their heart is hot like an oven with their plots, all night their anger is suppressed; and in the morning it burns as a flaming fire. 7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings have fallen; there is none among them who calls upon me.""
8 ¶ Ephraim has mixed himself with Gentiles; Ephraim has become as a loaf of bread which is eaten before it is baked. 9 Thus strangers have devoured his strength, and he knows it not: yea, gray hairs have grown upon him, yet he knows it not. 10 And the pride of Israel has been humbled in his presence; and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this. 11 Ephraim also is like a young dove without understanding; they have come to Egypt, they are gone to Assyria. 12 Wherever they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the air; I will chastise them according to the testimony which is heard against them. 13 Woe to them! for they have fled from me; I will bring misfortune upon them because they have transgressed against me; though I have saved them, yet they have spoken lies against me. 14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, but they howled upon their beds; they quarrel over wheat and wine, and they have rebelled against me. 15 Though I have disciplined and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me. 16 They have perverted themselves for nothing; they have become like a deceitful bow; their princes shall fall by the sword because of the boldness of their tongue; such shall be their entanglement in the land of Egypt.""
8:1 ¶ LET your mouth become like a trumpet. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant and trespassed my law. 2 They have called to me, saying, O our God, we know thee. 3 Israel has forgotten the good; the enemy has pursued him. 4 They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, but they did not let me know; of their silver and their gold they have made idols to themselves, that they may perish. 5 They have been led astray by your calf, O Samaria; my anger is kindled against them; how long will it be before they can be declared innocent? 6 For the idol is the product of Israel; a carpenter made it, therefore it is not God; but your calf, O Samaria, was made for deception. 7 For they have sown the wind, and they have reaped the whirlwind; it has no stalk, nor an ear to yield meal; and if it were to yield, the strangers shall eat it.""
8 ¶ Israel is swallowed up; now they are among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no use. 9 For they are gone up to Assyria, as a wild ass alone by himself; Ephraim has loved gifts. 10 Though they shall be delivered up to the Gentiles, I will gather them, and they shall rest a while from the burden of the kings and the princes. 11 Because Ephraim has made many altars to sin, altars have become to him for a great sin. 12 I have written to him many of my laws, but my words he considered as a strange thing. 13 They sacrifice the choicest of animals and eat the meat; but the LORD has no delight in them; now he will remember their iniquity and punish them for their sins; they shall return to Egypt. 14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities: but I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.""
9:1 ¶ REJOICE not, O Israel, leap not for joy, as others do; because you have gone astray from your God, you have loved gifts from every threshing floor. 2 But the threshing floor and the winepress shall not satisfy them, and the oil shall fail them. 3 They shall not dwell in the LORD’S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria. 4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall their sacrifices please him; their sacrifices shall be to them as the bread of affliction; all who eat of it shall be polluted; for their own bread shall not come into the house of the LORD. 5 What will you do on the solemn feast day, and on the day of the feast of the LORD? 6 For, lo, they are gone in the prey: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them; their valuable things of silver, strangers shall inherit them; thorns shall grow in their tents.""
7 ¶ The days of vengeance have come, the days of recompense are near; then Israel shall know it; the prophet is a fool, a dull man possessed by a spirit of stupidity; because of the multitude of your iniquity, your lasciviousness has been increased. 8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God; but the prophet is a snare and a stumbling block in all his ways, and wantonness in the house of God. 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Ramtha; therefore he will remember their iniquity, and he will punish them for their sins. 10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw their fathers like the first fruit of the fig tree, but they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves to that shameful thing, and became abominable like the things they loved.""
11 ¶ As for Ephraim, their glory has flown away like a bird, they are cut off from the birth, from the womb, and from the conception. 12 Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, that there shall not be a man left; yea, woe to them, for I will take vengeance upon them! 13 Ephraim’s fate shall be like that of Tyre, as you have seen, though planted in a pleasant place with buildings; likewise Ephraim shall bring out his children to the slaughter. 14 Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. 15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them; because of the wickedness of their doings, I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels. 16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bear children, I will cause them to die, even those who are tenderly beloved. 17 My God will reject them because they did not hearken to him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.""
10:1 ¶ ISRAEL is a vine full of branches that brings forth its fruit; according to the multitude of his fruit he has increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have built shrines. 2 Their heart is wavering; and from now they shall be condemned; he shall demolish their altars; he shall plunder their shrines. 3 For from now they shall say, We have no king because we feared not the LORD; what then can a king do for us? 4 They have spoken words belonging to false altars; they have broken the covenant and paid the penalty; they are like briers in a barren field. 5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall sojourn to the shrine of the calf of Beth-aon; for they sat down mourning over it together with its priests; they shall rejoice over it, and over its glory because it is departed from it. 6 Even the idol itself shall be also carried to Assyria for a present to the great king; Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel. 7 Samaria has cast away her king like a chip on the face of the water. 8 The high places of the idol of Aon, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed; thorns and thistles shall grow up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.""
9 ¶ O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Ramtha; there they shall remain, and the battle in Ramtha against the children of iniquity shall not overtake them. 10 In my rebuke I will chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them when they shall be chastised for their two follies. 11 Ephraim is like a heifer that is trained, and loves to tread out the wheat; but I bent her neck under the yoke; I will make Ephraim to be ridden upon, I will cause Judah to tread wheat, and Jacob shall be plundered. 12 Sow for yourselves righteousness, and reap a harvest of mercy; light a lamp for yourselves; for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and reveal his righteousness to you. 13 You have plowed sin and wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your ways, and in the multitude of your mighty men; 14 Therefore destruction shall come upon your people, and all your provinces shall be despoiled as plunder is divided when peace is concluded, even from Beth-el as far as the northern border; in the day of the battle the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children. 15 So they did to you, O Beth-el, because of your great wickedness; in a morning was the king of Israel confounded and ashamed.""
11:1 ¶ WHEN Israel was a child, then I loved him, and I called him, my son, out of Egypt. 2 Just as they were called, so they went away from my presence; they sacrificed to Baal and burned incense to idols. 3 It was I who cared for Ephraim and took them up in my arms; but they did not know that I healed them. 4 I drew them with cords of a man, with the bands of love; and I was to them as one who takes off the yoke from their neck, and I bent over them and fed them. 5 They shall not return to the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be their king, because they refused to repent. 6 The sword shall cause pain in their cities and consume their possessions, and they shall suffer because of their evil counsels. 7 And my people are inclined to backslide from me; though they shall call to God, they will take counsel together, and none at all would exalt him.""
8 ¶ How shall I uphold you, O Ephraim? How shall I help you, O Israel? How shall I make you as Adamah? How shall I set you as Zeboim? My heart is turned within me, my tender mercies are moved. 9 I will not execute the fierceness of my anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim; for I am God, and not man in the midst of you; I am the Holy One, and I will not come to attack the city. 10 They shall walk after the LORD; he shall roar like a lion; because he shall roar, some of the people shall tremble. 11 They shall come fast like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will bring them back to their dwelling place, says the LORD. 12 Ephraim has compassed me about with lies, and the house of Israel and Judah with deceit; until the people of God was humbled, a people once holy and faithful.""
12:1 ¶ EPHRAIM feeds on wind and follows after the tempest all the day long; they have multiplied lies and prey; they have made a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt. 2 The LORD has a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; and according to his devices will he recompense him. 3 In the womb he deceived his brother, and by his might he became great in the presence of God; 4 Yea, he prevailed over the angel, he made supplication to him; he found him in Beth-el, and there he spoke with him. 5 Even the LORD the God of hosts has remembered him. 6 Therefore return to your God; keep mercy and justice, and wait for your God continually.""
7 ¶ The balances of deceit are in the hand of Canaan, he loves to oppress. 8 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found grief; but all my labors will not be enough to rid me of the sin which I have sinned. 9 I am the LORD your God who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. I will again make you to dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feasts. 10 I have spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions and used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets. 11 In Gilead you suffered pain, and in Gilgal you sacrificed bullocks to falsehood; your altars are like dry stalks in a barren field. 12 Jacob fled to the land of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep. 13 And by the prophets the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by the prophets was he preserved. 14 Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly; therefore his blood shall come upon him, and his reproach shall his LORD return to him.""
13:1 ¶ WHEN Ephraim spoke, the people trembled; he became great in Israel; but when he was found guilty of Baal worship, he lost his power. 2 And even now they sin more and more, and have made to themselves molten images of their silver, and idols in their own likeness, the work of a carpenter; they said to the people, Let those men who sacrifice men kiss the image of the calf. 3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as the early dew that passes away, as the chaff that is driven with the wind out of the threshing floor and as the smoke out of the chimney. 4 Yet I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and you shall know no God but me; therefore there is no one who can save besides me.""
5 ¶ It was I who fed you in the wilderness, in a desolate land which is uninhabited. 6 I fed them, and they were filled; and their heart was exalted; therefore they have forgotten me. 7 Hence I will be to them like a lion; like a leopard by the way of Assyria. 8 I will meet them like a bear that tears its prey in pieces, and I will pierce the crust of their heart; and there a lion shall devour them; the wild beast shall tear them.""
9 ¶ O Israel, you have corrupted yourself; who can help you? 10 Where now is your king? Let him save you, and all your cities? And your judge of whom you said, Give me a king and a prince? 11 I gave you a king in my anger, and took him away in my wrath. 12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid. 13 The pangs like those of a woman in travail shall come upon him because he is an unwise son; for now he shall not be in pain of childbirth. 14 I will save them from the power of Sheol; I will deliver them from death, O death, where is your victory? O Sheol, where is your sting? Consolation is hidden from my eyes. 15 Because he shall be separated from his brothers, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall blow from the wilderness and dry up his fountains, and his springs shall be dried up; it shall spoil the treasure of all valuable vessels. 16 Samaria shall be condemned because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.""
14:1 ¶ O ISRAEL, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity. 2 Pledge loyalty, and turn to the LORD your God; and pray to him, that he may forgive your iniquity and receive blessings; then he will recompense you for the prayer of your lips. 3 And say, Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses; neither will we call any more the work of our hands, gods; for thou wilt have mercy upon the fatherless.""
4 ¶ I will heal their backsliding, I will love their vows; and my anger shall turn away from them. 5 I will be as the dew to Israel; he shall spring up as the lily, and cast forth his roots as cedars of Lebanon. 6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like that of Lebanon. 7 They shall return and dwell under his shadow; they shall flourish like grain, and grow as the vine; and their scent shall be like the wine of Lebanon.""
8 ¶ Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have humbled him, and I will glorify him; I am like a green fir tree. From me is your fruit found. 9 He who is wise shall understand these things; he who is prudent shall know them; for the ways of the LORD are right, and the righteous shall walk in them; but transgressors shall stumble therein."