Hosea 11Hosea 12Hosea 13Hosea 14Hebrews 2Hosea 11
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When Israel [was] a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
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[As] they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
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I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms but they knew not that I healed them.
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I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
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He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.
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And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour [them], because of their own counsels.
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And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt [him].
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How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? [how] shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? [how] shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.
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I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I [am] God, and not man the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.
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They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.
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They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD.
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Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.
Hosea 12
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Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
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The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways according to his doings will he recompense him.
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He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:
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Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him [in] Bethel, and there he spake with us
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Even the LORD God of hosts the LORD [is] his memorial.
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Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
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[He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
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And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: [in] all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that [were] sin.
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And I [that am] the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
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I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
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[Is there] iniquity [in] Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal yea, their altars [are] as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
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And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep].
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And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
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Ephraim provoked [him] to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.
Hosea 13
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When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel but when he offended in Baal, he died.
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And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, [and] idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
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Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff [that] is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
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Yet I [am] the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for [there is] no saviour beside me.
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I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
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According to their pasture, so were they filled they were filled, and their heart was exalted therefore have they forgotten me.
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Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe [them]:
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I will meet them as a bear [that is] bereaved [of her whelps], and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
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O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself but in me [is] thine help.
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I will be thy king: where [is any other] that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?
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I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took [him] away in my wrath.
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The iniquity of Ephraim [is] bound up his sin [is] hid.
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The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he [is] an unwise son for he should not stay long in [the place of] the breaking forth of children.
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I will ransom them from the power of the grave I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
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Though he be fruitful among [his] brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
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Samaria shall become desolate for she hath 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.
Hosea 14
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O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
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Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive [us] graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
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Asshur shall not save us we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, [Ye are] our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
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I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
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I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
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His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
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They that dwell under his shadow shall return they shall revive [as] the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof [shall be] as the wine of Lebanon.
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Ephraim [shall say], What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard [him], and observed him: I [am] like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.
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Who [is] wise, and he shall understand these [things]? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD [are] right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
Hebrews 2
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Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let [them] slip.
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For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward
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How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard [him]
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God also bearing [them] witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
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For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.
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But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?
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Thou madest him a little lower than the angels thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:
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Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing [that is] not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.
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But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
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For it became him, for whom [are] all things, and by whom [are] all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
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For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified [are] all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
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Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.
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And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.
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Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil
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And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
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For verily he took not on [him the nature of] angels but he took on [him] the seed of Abraham.
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Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto [his] brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things [pertaining] to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
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For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
