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Hosea 13

1 The abomination of Israél, 9 And cause of their destruction.
1.When Ephráim spake, there was atrembling: he bexalted him self in Israél, but he hath sinned in Báal, cand is dead.
2.And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding: they were all the work of the craftsmen: they say one to another whiles they sacrifice a dman, Let them kiss the calves.
3.Therefore they shalbe as the morning cloud, and as the morning dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with a whirl wind out of the floor, and as the smoke that goeth out of the chimney.
4.Yet I am the Lord thy God efrom the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no God but me: for there is no Saviour beside me.
5.I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of drought.
6.As in their pastures, so were they filled: they were filled, and their heart was exalted: therefore have they forgotten me.
7.And I will be unto them as a very lyon, and as a leopard in the way of Asshúr.
8.I will meet them, as a bear that is robbed of her whelps, and I will break the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lyon: the wild beast shal tear them.
9.O Israél, fone hath destroyed thee, but in me is thine help.
10.gI am: where is thy King, that should help thee in all thy cities? and thy judges, of whom thou saidest, Give me a King & princes?
11.I gave thee a King in mine anger, and I took him away in my wrath.
12.The iniquity of Ephráim is hbound up: his sin is hid.
13.The sorrows of a travailing woman shal come upon him: he is an unwise son, els would he not stand still at the time, even at the ibreaking forth of the children.
14.I will redeem them from the power of the grave: I will deliver them from death: ô kdeath, I will be thy death: ô grave, I will be thy destruction: lrepentance is hid from mine eyes.
15.Though he grew up among his brethren, an East wind shal come, even the wind of the Lord shal come up from the wilderness, and dry up his vein, and his fountain shalbe dryed up: he shal spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
16.Samaria shal be desolate: for she hath rebelled against her God: they shal fall by the sword: their infants shalbe dashed in pieces, and their women with child shalbe ript.

Notes

1-a.
He shows the excellence, and authority that this tribe had above all the rest.
1-b.
He made a King of his tribe.
1-c.
The Ephraimites are not far from destruction, and have lost their authority.
2-d.
The false prophets persuaded the idolaters to offer their children after the example of Abraham, and he shows how they would exhort one another to the same and to kiss, and worship these calves which were their idols.
4-e.
He calls them to repentance and reproves their ingratitude.
9-f.
Your destruction is certain, and my benefits toward you declare that it comes not of me: therefore your own malice, and idolatry and vain confidence in men must needs be the cause thereof.
10-g.
I am all one, Jam. 1.17.
12-h.
It is surely laid up to be punished, as Jer. 17.1.
13-i.
But would come out of the womb, that is, out of this danger wherein he is, and not tarry to be stifled (smothered).
14-k.
Meaning that no power shall resist God when he will deliver his, but even in death will he give them life.
14-l.
Because they will not turn to me, I will not change my purpose.