Hosea 11:1-12 My People are Bent on Backsliding From Me

 

My People are Bent on Backsliding From Me

Hosea 11:1-12                      The Book of Hosea [in Smaller Chunks]

When Israel was a child, then I loved him, & called My Son out of Egypt. [Matthew 2:14-15 When he arose, he took the young Child, & His mother [at] night, & departed into Egypt.

* And was there until the death of Herod: [so] that it might be fulfilled, [what] was spoken [about] the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt I have called My Son.]

[Like] they called them, they [also] went from them, & they sacrificed to Baalim, [a.k.a. Baal,] & burned incense to [carved] images. I also taught Ephraim to [walk,] taking them by their [hands,] but they didn't know that I healed them.

[Exodus 15:26 And said, If you will diligently [pay attention] to the voice of the Lord your God, & will do [what] is right in His sight, & will [listen] to His commandments, & keep His [mandates,] I will [not] put [any] of these disease upon you, [that] I have brought upon the Egyptians. For I Am the Lord, [Who] heals you.]

I [pulled] them [out] with cords [for] a man & bands of love. And I was to them [like those, who remove] the yoke [from] their jaws. [Leviticus 26:13 I Am the Lord your God, [Who] brought you out of the land of Egypt, [so] that you [wouldn't] be their [slaves.] And I have broken the bands of your yoke, & made you [walk] upright.]

And I [gave] meat to them. [Psalm 105:40 The [Israelite] people asked, & He brought quail, & satisfied them with the bread of heaven, [a.k.a. manna.]

He, [a.k.a. Israel,] shouldn't return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return [to the Lord their God.] And the sword shall [remain in] his cities, & consume his branches, [a.k.a. descendants,] & devour them, because of their own [advice.]

[Ezekiel 28:6-7 Therefore, the Lord God says [this;] Because you have set your heart [like] the heart of God, therefore, [watch,] I will bring strangers upon you, the terrible of the nations. And they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom & they shall defile your brightness, [a.k.a. intelligence.]

And My people are [focused on] backsliding from Me. [Although] they [were] called to the Most High, none at all would exalt Him. [Jeremiah 3:6-7 The Lord also said to me [during] the days of king Josiah, [Have] you seen [what] backsliding Israel has done?

She [has] gone up upon every high mountain, & under every green tree, & has played the [unfaithful] harlot there. And after she had done all these things, I said, You, [return] [back] to Me. But she [didn't return.] And her treacherous sister, Judah, saw it.]

How shall I give up [on] you, Ephraim? How shall I deliver you, Israel? How shall I make you [like] Admah? How shall I [put] you [like] Zeboim? [Deuteronomy 29:22-26 So, that the generation of your children to come, that shall rise up after you, & the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land & the sicknesses which the Lord has laid upon it.

And the whole land [of it] is brimstone, salt, & burning, that isn't sown, nor [produces,] nor [does] any grass grow [in it.] Like the overthrow of Sodom; Gomorrah; Admah; & Zeboim; [that] the Lord overthrew in His anger & in His [fury.]

Even all nations shall say, [Why] has the Lord done [like this,] to this land? What [does] the heat of this great anger mean?

Then, men shall say, Because they have [abandoned] the covenant [contract] of the Lord God of their [forefathers,] which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt. For they went & served other gods, & worshiped gods, [that] they [didn't know,] & whom He hadn't given to them.]

[My] heart is [moved] within Me & My [sense of loss grows.] I won't [carry out] the fierceness of [My] anger & I won't return to destroy Ephraim. For I Am God, & not [a] man; the Holy One in the midst of you. And I won't enter into the city.

[Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that He should lie. Neither the Son of Man, that He should repent. Has He said, & [won't] He not do it? Or has He spoken, & shall He not make it [happen?]

They shall [follow] after the Lord. He shall roar like a lion & when He [roars,] then, the children [people] shall tremble from the West. They shall tremble [like] a bird out of Egypt, & [like] a dove out of the land of Assyria. And I will place them in their houses, says the Lord.

[Ezekiel 28:25-26 The Lord God says [this;] When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, & [I] shall be sanctified in them, in the sight of the heathen, then they shall dwell in their land that I have given to My servant Jacob, [a.k.a Israel.]

And they shall dwell safely [there,] & shall build houses & plant vineyards. [Yes,] they shall dwell with confidence, when I have [carried out justice] upon all those, [who] despise them [all around] them. And they shall know that I Am the Lord their God.]

Ephraim [surrounds] Me: with lies, & the house of Israel with deceit. But [still] Judah rules with God, & is faithful with the saints. [Revelation 14:12-13 Here is the patience of the saints: Here are [those, who] keep [God's] commandments, & faith [in] Jesus.

And I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, Write, Blessed are the dead, [who] die in the Lord from [now on.] [Yes,] says the Spirit, [so] that they may rest from their labors & their works, [a.k.a. deeds,] follow them.]

Hosea 10:1-15 Israel is an Empty Vine

 

Israel is an Empty Vine

Hosea 10:1-15             The Book of Hosea [in Smaller Chunks]

Israel is an empty vine & he [produces] fruit [only for] himself. He has increased the altars, according to the multitude of his fruit. And according to the goodness of his land, they have made [attractive] images.

[Jeremiah 11:13 For: O Judah, your gods were, according to the number of your cities. And you have [put] up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal, according to the number of [Jerusalem's] streets.]

Their heart is divided. [Mark 7:6-7 *He answered & said to them, [Isaiah] has prophesied well of you hypocrites, [like] it is written, This people honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. [However,] they worship Me in vain, teaching [like] doctrines, the commandments of men.]

Now, they shall be found [guilty.] He shall break down their altars & He shall spoil their images. [Exodus 23:24-25 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do, [according to] their works.

But you shall [totally] overthrow them, & [completely] break down their images. And you shall serve the Lord your God, & He will bless your bread, & your waters. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you.]

For they shall now say, We have no king, because we [didn't] fear [respect] the Lord. Then, what should a king do to us? In making a covenant [contract,] they have spoken words, swearing falsely.

[Like this,] judgment [sprouts up] [like poisonous] hemlock in the [rows.] The [residents] of Samaria, shall [be] [fearful,] because the calves of Beth Aven, [a.k.a. Beth El, have] departed from it. For the people [there] shall mourn over it & the priests, [who] rejoiced [about] it; for [its] glory.

[1 Kings 12:27-30 This people go up to sacrifice in the [Lord's] house [in] Jerusalem, then the heart of this people shall [return] to their lord, even to Rehoboam, [Judah's] king, & they shall kill me, & go again to Rehoboam, [Judah's] king.

[Upon which,] king [Jeroboam] [got advice] & made 2 calves of gold, & said to them, It's too much for you to go up to Jerusalem, [to sacrifice.] [See,] your gods, O Israel, [that] brought you up, out of the land of Egypt.

And he [put] 1 in Beth El, & he put the other in Dan. And this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the 1, even to Dan.]

It shall also be carried to Assyria for a present to king Jareb. Ephraim shall receive shame, & Israel shall be ashamed of his own [advice.] [Hosea 5:11-12 Ephraim is oppressed & [is] [without] judgment, because he willing [followed] after [their] [own] commandment. Therefore, I will be [like] a moth to Ephraim, & [like rot] to the house of Judah.]

As for Samaria, her king is cut off [like] [a broken twig on] the foam upon the water. Also, the high places of Aven, [a.k.a. Beth Aven, or Beth El,] & the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. The thorn & the thistle shall [grow] up on their altars. And they shall say to the mountains, Cover us, & to the hills, Fall on us.

[Revelation 6:16-17 And [they] said to the mountains & rocks, Fall on us, & hide us from the face of Him, [Who] sits on the throne, & from the [anger] of the Lamb. For the great day of His wrath [has] come. And who shall be able to [endure?]

O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they stood & the battle in Gibeah against the children [people] of [wickedness,] didn't overtake them.  [Judges 20:5-6 And the men of Gibeah rose [up] against me, & [surrounded] the house & [came] upon me by night & thought to [kill] me.

And they have forced my [mistress] & she is dead. And I took my [mistress] & cut her in pieces, & sent her throughout the country of [Israel's] inheritance. For they have committed [what is] [lewd & foolish] in Israel.]

It is My desire that I should chastise them & the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall [tie] themselves in 2 rows [like] their [wheat.] And Ephraim is [like a] heifer, that [is trained] & loves to [trample out] the corn.

But I  passed [a harness] over her [well-favored] neck: & I will make Ephraim [able] to [be] [ridden.] Judah shall plow, & Jacob shall break [up] his [dirt] clods. Sow to yourselves, [what is:] [righteous] & [harvest] mercy.

[Plow] your [untilled] ground: for it's time to seek the Lord, [until] He [comes] & [rains] [down] righteousness upon you. You have plowed [what is:] [wicked] & you have [harvested] [what is:] [sinful.] [Job 4:8 Even [like] I have seen, [those, who] plow iniquity, & sow wickedness, reap, [a.k.a. harvest,] the same.]

You have eaten the fruit [produced from] lies, because you [trusted] in your ways. [Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked [abandon] his [ways,] & the unrighteous man [abandon] his thoughts. And let him return to the Lord & to our God. And He will have mercy upon him: for He will pardon abundantly.]

And [you trusted] in the multitude of your mighty men. [Isaiah 31:1 Woe to [those, who] go down to Egypt for help, & [rely] on horses, & trust in chariots, because they are many; & in horsemen, because they are very strong. But they [don't] look to the Holy One of Israel, & neither do they seek the Lord!]

Therefore, [turbulence] shall arise among your people, & all your fortresses shall be [plundered, like] Shalman [plundered] Beth Arbel [on] the day of battle & the mother was dashed to piece upon her children.

[Nahum 3:10 Still, she was carried away & she went into captivity. Her young children were also dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets. And they cast lots for her honorable men, & all her [important] men were bound in chains.]

So shall Beth El, [a.k.a. Beth Aven,] do to you, because of your great wickedness. In [the] morning, the king of Israel shall be [totally] cut off.

Hosea 9:1-17 They Have Deeply Corrupted Themselves

 

They Have Deeply Corrupted Themselves

Hosea 9:1-17                              The Book of Hosea [in Smaller Chunks]

O Israel, [don't] rejoice for joy, [like] other people. For you have gone [unfaithfully like a harlot] from your God. You [have] loved a reward, [a.k.a. a harlot's payment] on every corn floor.

[Hosea 10:5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall [be fearful,] because of the [gold] calves of Beth Aven. For the people [there] shall mourn over it, & [its] priests, [who] rejoiced [about] it, for [its] glory. Because [its glory has] departed from it.]

The [threshing] floor & the wine press, shall not feed them. And the new wine shall fail in [Israel.] They shall not dwell in the Lord's land. But Ephraim shall return to Egypt, & they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

[Ezekiel 4:14 I then said, Ah, Lord God: [See,] my soul hasn't been [defiled.] from my youth up, even [until] now, I haven't eaten [what] dies of itself, or is torn in pieces. Neither has abominable flesh [entered] into my mouth.]

They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord, neither shall they be pleasing to Him. Their sacrifices shall be to them, [like] the bread of mourners. All, [who] eat [of it] shall be [defiled.] For the bread for their [souls] shall not come into the [Lord's] house.

[Leviticus 17:11-12 For the life of the flesh is in the blood. And I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for the soul. Therefore, I said to the children [people] of Israel, No, [person] of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that [temporarily stays] among you, eat [meat with the] blood.]

What will you do [on] the solemn day, & on the feast day of the Lord? For, [look] [if] [they] are gone, because of [the] destruction, Egypt shall gather them up, & Memphis shall bury them.

The pleasant places for their silver, in their tents, shall [now] be [possessed] by [sticker bushes] & thorns. The days of visitation, [a.k.a. punishment, have] come & Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool & the spiritual man is [insane because of] the multitude of your: [sins] & great hatred.

[Jeremiah 23:25-27 I have heard what the prophets said, [who] prophesy lies in My Name, saying, I have dreamed. I have dreamed. How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets, [who] prophesy lies?

[Yes,] they are prophets of the deceit [in] their own heart. [Those,] [who] think to cause My people to forget My Name, by their dreams [that] every man [tells] to his neighbor. Their fathers have forgotten My Name, [instead] for Baal.]

The watchman, [a.k.a guard] of Ephraim was with my God. [Ezekiel 33:7 O son of man, I have [put] you [like a] watchman, [for] the house of Israel. Therefore, you shall hear the [Words] at My mouth, & warn them [for] Me.]

But in all his ways, the prophet is [like] a snare for a [bird trapper,] & [causes] hatred in the house of his God. [The prophets] have deeply corrupted themselves, [like during] the days of Gibeah. Therefore, He will remember their [sinfulness] & He will visit, [a.k.a. punish] their sins.

[Judges 20:5-6 And the men of Gibeah rose [up] against me, & [surrounded] the house & [came] upon me by night & thought to [kill] me. And they have forced my [mistress] & she is dead.

And I took my [mistress] & cut her in pieces, & sent her throughout the country of [Israel's] inheritance. For they have committed [what is] [lewd & foolish] in Israel.]

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your [forefathers like] the first ripe [fruit] in the fig tree, [in its] 1st [season.] But they went to Baal Peor & separated themselves to [to do what is] [shameful] & their abominations were  according [to] as [many as] they loved.

[Jeremiah 11:10-13 They [have] turned back to the [sins] of their forefathers, [who] refused to hear My Words. And they went after other gods to serve them. The [houses] of: Israel & Judah have broken My covenant [contract, that] I made with their fathers.

Therefore, the Lord says [this, Look,] I will bring [calamity] upon them, [that] they shall not be able to escape. And [although] they shall cry [out] to Me, I will not [pay attention] to them. Then, the cities of Judah & the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall go & cry [out] to the gods, to whom they offer incense.

But they shall not save them at all [on their] day of trouble. Your gods were: according to the number of your cities, O Judah, & you have [put] up altars, according to the number of [Jerusalem's] streets, to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.]

As for Ephraim, from conception, & birth from the womb, their glory shall fly away like a bird. [Although] they bring up their children, [still] I will [deprive them] [of loved ones,] [so] that there shall not be a man left. [Yes,] also [distress] to [those,] when I depart from them!

Ephraim, [like] I saw Tyrus, [a.k.a. Tyre,] is [also] planted in a pleasant place. But Ephraim shall [deliver] his children to the murderer. [Psalm 106:34-38 They didn't destroy the nations, [about] whom the Lord commanded them; but were [mixed] among the heathen, & learned their works.

And they served their idols: which were a snare to them. [Yes,] they sacrificed their sons & daughters to [demons.] And shed [the] blood [of the] innocent, even the blood of their sons & daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. And the land was [defiled] with [bloodshed.]

O Lord, give [to] them…what will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb & dry breasts. [Luke 23:29 For, [watch,] the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, & the wombs that never [bore,] & the [breasts that] never [nursed.]

All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for [that's where] I hated them. [Because of] the wickedness of their [actions,] I will drive them out [from My] house. I will no [longer] love them. All their princes are revolters. [Isaiah 1:21-23 How the faithful city [has] become [a] harlot.

It was full of [justice] & righteousness [stayed] in it; but now murderers. Your silver [has] become [scum] & your wine is mixed with water. Your princes are rebellious, & companions of thieves. Everyone loves gifts, [a.k.a. bribes,] & follows after rewards. They [don't] judge the fatherless, & neither [does] the [case] of the widow come to them.]

Ephraim is [struck] & their root is dried up. They shall [deliver] no fruit, [a.k.a. offspring.] [Yes,] though they [deliver,] I will [still] slay, even the beloved fruit of their womb.

[Mark 7:6-7 *He answered & said to them, [Isaiah] has prophesied well of you hypocrites, [like] it is written, This people honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. [However] they worship Me in vain, teaching [like] doctrines, the commandments of men.]

My God will cast them away, because they didn't [pay attention] to Him. And they shall be wanderers among the nations.

Hosea 8:1-14 About Those Who Worship the Calf Idol in Samaria

 

About Those Who Worship the Calf Idol in Samaria

Hosea 8:1-14                               The Book of Hosea [in Smaller Chunks]

[Put] the trumpet to your mouth. He shall come [like] an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have [sinned] [against] My covenant [contract] & have [sinned] against My Law.

[Deuteronomy 28:49-51 The Lord shall bring a nation against you from far [away,] from the [ends] of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies. A nation whose [language] you shall not understand. A nation of fierce [looking faces, who] don't regard, [a.k.a. respect] the [elderly,] nor [show] favor to the young.

And he shall eat the fruit, [a.k.a. offspring,] of your [livestock,] & the fruit [produced by] your land, until you [are] destroyed. Also, [who] shall not leave you either: [grain;] wine; oil, or the increase of your [cattle,] or your flocks of your sheep, until he [has] destroyed you.]

Israel shall cry [out] to Me, My God, we know you. [Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God; but they deny Him [by] abominable works, [a.k.a. deeds,] & being disobedient, & [morally corrupt toward] every good work.]

Israel shas cast off the thing that is good & the enemy shall pursue him. [Romans 12:2 And [don't conform, a.k.a. act according to,] this world: but you be transformed, [a.k.a. changed,] by the renewing of your mind, [so] that you may prove what is that: good, acceptable, & perfect will of God.]

They have [established] kings, but not by Me. They have made princes, & I [didn't] know it. They have made [themselves] idols [from] their silver & gold, [so] that they may be cut off.

[1 Kings 12:27-30 If this people go up to sacrifice in the [Lord's] house [in] Jerusalem, then the heart of this people shall [return] again to their lord, even to Rehoboam, [Judah's] king. And they shall kill me, & go again to Rehoboam, [Judah's] king.

[Upon which,] king [Jeroboam] [got advice] & made 2 calves of gold, & said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem, [to sacrifice.] [See,] your gods, O Israel, [that] brought you up, out of the land of Egypt. And he [put] 1 in Beth El, [a.k.a. Beth Aven,] & he put the other in Dan. And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the 1, even to Dan.]

O Samaria, your calf has cast you off. [My] anger has [grown] against them. How long will it be [until] they attain [innocence, a.k.a. purity]? For it was from Israel & also the workman made it. Therefore, it is not God. But the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

For they have sown [what is nothing, only] wind & they shall reap, [a.k.a. harvest,] the whirlwind. It has no stalk, & [its] bud [doesn't produce flour.] If it [did produce,] the strangers [would] swallow it up. [Job 4:8 Even [like] I have seen, [those who] plow [what is] [sinful,] & sow wickedness, reap the same.]

Israel is swallowed up & now they shall be among the Gentiles, [like] a vessel [in which there] is no pleasure. [Jeremiah 22:28 Is this man, Coniah, [a.k.a Jeconiah,] a despised broken idol? Is he a vessel [in which] is no pleasure? [For this reason] they are cast out, he & his seed, [a.k.a offspring,] are cast into a land [that] they don't know?]

For they [have] gone up to Assyria, [like] a wild [mule,] alone by himself. Ephraim has hired lovers. [Jeremiah 16:10-11 And it shall [happen,] when you shall [declare] all these Words [to these] people, & they shall say to you, [For what reason has] the Lord pronounced all this great [disaster] against us? Or what is our iniquity?

Or what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God? Then, you shall say to them, Because your [forefathers] have [abandoned] Me, says the Lord, & have [followed] after other gods, & have served them, & worshiped them. And [they] have [abandoned] Me & haven't kept My Law.]

[Yes, although] they have hired among the nations, I will now gather them & they shall [be sorrowful] a little, for the burden of the king of princes. [2 Kings 17:3-4 Shalmaneser, [Assyria's] king, came up against [Ahaz] & Hoshea, [a.k.a. Hosea,] became his servant & gave him presents, [a.k.a tribute money or taxes.]

And the king of Assyria, found conspiracy in [Hosea: because] he had sent messengers to So, [Egypt's] king, & no [longer] brought [presents] to [Assyria's] king, [like] he had done year by year. Therefore, [Assyria's] king, shut [Hosea] up & [chained] him in prison.]

Because Ephraim has made many altars [for] sin, altars shall be [sinful] to him. [Psalm 106:36-39 And they served their idols; [that] were a snare to them. [Yes,] they sacrificed their sons & daughters to [demons.] And shed [the] blood [of the] innocent, even the blood of their sons & daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. And the land was [defiled] with [bloodshed.]

I have written the great things [about] My Law to him, but they were [considered like] a strange thing. They sacrifice [meat] for the sacrifices of [My] offerings, & eat it. But the Lord [doesn't] accept them. He will now remember their [sinfulness,] & visit, [a.k.a. punish,] their sins & they shall return to Egypt.

[Deuteronomy 28:68 And the Lord shall bring you into Egypt again, [by] ships, & by the way [of which] I [said] to you, You shall no [longer] see it again. And you shall be sold there to your enemies for [male & female slaves,] but no man shall buy you.]

For Israel has forgotten his Maker, & [builds] temples, & Judah has multiplied fenced cities. But I will send a fire upon his cities, & it shall devour [its] palaces.

[Jeremiah 2:28 But where are your gods that you [have] made [yourselves?] For according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah. Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble.]