Hosea

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1 Ephraim and Judah are both reproved. 3 In consideration of God's former favours to Jacob they are exhorted to repent. 7 Ephraim's sins and ingratitude provoke God.

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EPHRAIM feedeth on awind, and followeth after the east wind: bhe daily increaseth lies and desolation; and cthey do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and doil is carried into Egypt.

a Job 15.2. Je. 22.20. ch. 8.7; 13.15.
b ch. 11.12. 2Ki. 17.4-6.
c ch. 5.13; 7.11. 2Ki. 15.19; 17.4. De. 8.8.
d Is. 57.9.
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eThe LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will 1punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his fdoings will he recompense him.

e Mi. 6.2. 2Ch. 28.10. Is. 3.11; 8.7,8; 10; 22; 24-37. ch. 4.1,2. Je. 25.31.
f Ga. 6.7,8.
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¶He took his brother gby the heel in the womb, and by his strength hhe 2had power with God:

g Ge. 25.26. Lu. 1.44. Je. 1.5. Mal. 1.2,3. Ro. 9.11-13.
h Ge. 32.24-28. v.4. Ja. 5.16-18. Is. 45.11. He. 5.7.
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Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in iBeth-el, and there he spake jwith us;

i Ge. 35.9,10,15; 28.11-20.
j Ps. 66.6. Ro. 15.4. Ge. 17.7.
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Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his kmemorial.

k Ex. 3.15. Is. 42.8. Ps. 83.18.
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lTherefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.

l ch. 14.1. Je. 3.4,14,22. Is. 55.7. Mi. 6.8. Ps. 27.14; 130.7,8. Hab. 2.3.
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He is 3a merchant, the mbalances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to 4oppress.

m Le. 19.35,36. Pr. 11.1. Am. 8.5.
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And Ephraim said, nYet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: 5in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me 6that were sin.

n Ps. 49.6; 52.7. Pr. 13.7; 30.12,20. Tit. 1.16. Zec. 11.5. Re. 3.17.
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And I othat am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt pwill yet make thee to dwell in *tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.

o v.13. ch. 13.4. Ex. 20.2; 19.5,6. Je. 2.2.
p Je. 23.6. Eze. 34.25; 37.26,27. ch. 2.18. Le. 23.34,42,43. Zec. 14.16.
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I have also qspoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used rsimilitudes, 7by the ministry of the prophets.

q Nu. 12.6. Je. 44.4. 2Ch. 36.14-16.
r ch. 1.2-5; 3.1. Is. 20.2-4. Je. 13; 19. Eze. 4; 5; 7.
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sIs there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, ttheir altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

s ch. 6.8; 4.15; 9.15. Am. 4.4; 5.5.
t ch. 8.11; 10.1. Je. 2.20,28.
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And Jacob ufled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

u De. 26.5. Ge. 28.5,10; 27.43; 29.20,28.
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vAnd by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.

v Ex. 12.50,51; 13.3. Is. 63.11. Ps. 77.20. ch. 13.4,5. De. 18.15.
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wEphraim provoked him to anger 8most bitterly: xtherefore shall he leave his 9blood upon him, and his yreproach shall his Lord return unto him.

w De. 32.15-27; 28.15-68. Le. 26.14-39. 2Ki. 17.7-17.
x Is. 3.11. Je. 2.19. ch. 13.9. Eze. 24.7,8.
y ch. 7.16. 1Sa. 2.30. De. 28.37. Da. 11.18.