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Hosea","Category: Classics of Literature","Category: History - Ancient","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\nfrom etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia\nand Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE PROPHECY OF OSEE\n\nOSEE, or Hosea, whose name signifies A saviour, was the first in the\norder of time among those who are commonly called lesser prophets,\nbecause their prophecies are short. He prophesied in the kingdom of\nIsrael, that is, of the ten tribes, about the same time that Isaias\nprophesied in the kingdom of Juda.\n\n\nOsee Chapter 1\n\nBy marrying a harlot, and by the names of his children, the prophet sets\nforth the crimes of Israel and their punishment. He foretells their\nredemption by Christ.\n\n1:1. The word of the Lord, that came to Osee, the son of Beeri, in the\ndays of Ozias, Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda, and in the\ndays of Jeroboam, the son of Joas, king of Israel.\n\n1:2. The beginning of the Lord's speaking by Osee: and the Lord said to\nOsee: Go, take thee a wife of fornications, and have of her children of\nfornications: for the land by fornication shall depart from the Lord.\n\nA wife of fornications... That is, a wife that has been given to\nfornication. This was to represent the Lord's proceedings with his\npeople Israel, who, by spiritual fornication, were continually offending\nhim.-Ibid. Children of fornications... So called from the character of\ntheir mother, if not also from their own wicked dispositions.\n\n1:3. So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Debelaim: and she\nconceived, and bore him a son.\n\n1:4. And the Lord said to him: Call his name Jezrahel: for yet a little\nwhile, and I will visit the blood of Jezrahel upon the house of Jehu,\nand I will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.\n\n1:5. And in that day I will break in pieces the bow of Israel in the\nvalley of Jezrahel.\n\n1:6. And she conceived again, and bore a daughter, and he said to him:\nCall her name, Without mercy: for I will not add any more to have mercy\non the house of Israel, but I will utterly forget them.\n\nWithout mercy... Lo-Ruhamah.\n\n1:7. And I will have mercy on the house of Juda, and I will save them by\nthe Lord, their God: and I will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor\nby battle, nor by horses, nor by horsemen.\n\n1:8. And she weaned her that was called Without mercy. And she\nconceived, and bore a son.\n\n1:9. And he said: Call his name, Not my people: for you are not my\npeople, and I will not be yours.\n\nNot my people... Lo-ammi.\n\n1:10. And the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of\nthe sea, that is without measure, and shall not be numbered. And it\nshall be in the place where it shall be said to them: You are not my\npeople: it shall be said to them: Ye are the sons of the living God.\n\nThe number, etc... Viz., of the true Israelites, the children of the\nchurch of Christ.\n\n1:11. And the children of Juda, and the children of Israel, shall be\ngathered together: and they shall appoint themselves one head, and shall\ncome up out of the land: for great is the day of Jezrahel.\n\nOne head... viz., Christ.-Ibid. Great is the day of Jezrahel... That is,\nof the seed of God; for Jezrahel signifies the seed of God.\n\nOsee Chapter 2\n\nIsrael is justly punished for leaving God. The abundance of grace in the\nchurch of Christ.\n\n2:1. Say ye to your brethren: You are my people: and to your sister:\nThou hast obtained mercy.\n\nSay to your brethren, etc... or, Call your brethren, My people: and your\nsister, Her that hath obtained mercy. This is connected with the latter\nend of the foregoing chapter, and relates to the converts of Israel.\n\n2:2. Judge your mother, judge her: because she is not my wife, and I am\nnot her husband. Let her put away her fornications from her face, and\nher adulteries from between her breasts.\n\nYour mother... The synagogue.\n\n2:3. Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was\nborn: and I will make her as a wilderness, and will set her as a land\nthat none can pass through and will kill her with drought.\n\n2:4. And I will not have mercy on her children for they are the\nchildren of fornications.\n\n2:5. For their mother hath committed fornication, she that conceived\nthem is covered with shame: for she said: I will go after my lovers,\nthat give me my bread, and my water, my wool, and my flax, my oil, and\nmy drink.\n\n2:6. Wherefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will\nstop it up with a wall, and she shall not find her paths.\n\n2:7. And she shall follow after her lovers, and shall not overtake them:\nand she shall seek them, and shall not find, and she shall say: I will\ngo, and return to my first husband: because it was better with me then\nthan now.\n\n2:8. And she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and\nmultiplied her silver, and gold, which they have used in the service of\nBaal.\n\n2:9. Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in its season, and\nmy wine in its season, and I will set at liberty my wool, and my flax,\nwhich covered her disgrace.\n\n2:10. And now I will lay open her folly in the eyes of her lovers: and\nno man shall deliver her out of my hand:\n\n2:11. And I will cause all her mirth to cease, her solemnities, her new\nmoons, her sabbaths, and all her festival times.  2:12. And I will\ndestroy her vines, and her fig trees, of which she said: These are my\nrewards, which my lovers have given me: and I will make her as a forest\nand the beasts of the field shall devour her.\n\n2:13. And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, to whom she burnt\nincense, and decked herself out with her earrings, and with her jewels,\nand went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the Lord.\n\n2:14. Therefore, behold I will allure her, and will lead her into the\nwilderness: and I will speak to her heart.\n\nI will allure her, etc... After all her disloyalties, I will still\nallure her by my grace etc., and send her vinedressers, viz., the\napostles: originally her own children, who shall open to her the gates\nof hope; as heretofore at her coming into the land of promise, she had\nall good success after she had satisfied the divine justice by the\nexecution of Achan in the valley of Achor. Jos. 7.\n\n2:15. And I will give her vinedressers out of the same place, and the\nvalley of Achor for an opening of hope: and she shall sing there\naccording to the days of her youth, and according to the days of her\ncoming up out of the land of Egypt.\n\n2:16. And it shall be in that day, saith the Lord: That she shall call\nme: My husband, and she shall call me no more Banli.\n\nMy husband... In Hebrew, Ishi. Baali, my lord. The meaning of this verse\nis: that whereas Ishi and Baali were used indifferently in those days by\nwives speaking to their husbands; the synagogue, whom God was pleased to\nconsider as his spouse, should call him only Ishi, and abstain from the\nname of Baali, because of its affinity with the idol Baal.\n\n2:17. And I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and she\nshall no more remember their name.\n\nBaalim... It is the plural number of Baal: for there were divers idols\nof Baal.\n\n2:18. And in that day I will make a covenant with them, with the beasts\nof the field, and with the fowls of the air, and with the creeping\nthings of the earth: and I will destroy the bow, and the sword, and war\nout of the land: and I will make them sleep secure.\n\n2:19. And I will espouse thee to me for ever: and I will espouse thee to\nme in justice, and judgment, and in mercy, and in commiserations.\n\nI will espouse thee, etc... This relates to the happy espousals of\nChrist with his church: which shall never be dissolved.\n\n2:20. And I will espouse thee to me in faith: and thou shalt know that I\nam the Lord.\n\n2:21. And it shall come to pass in that day: I will hear, saith the\nLord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth.\n\nHear the heavens, etc... All shall conspire in favour of the church,\nwhich in the following verse is called Jezrahel, that is, the seed of\nGod.\n\n2:22. And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil, and\nthese shall hear Jezrahel.\n\n2:23. And I will sow her unto me in the earth, and I will have mercy on\nher that was without mercy.\n\n2:24. And I will say to that which is not my people: Thou art my people:\nand they shall say: Thou art my God.\n\nThat which was not my people, etc... This relates to the conversion of\nthe Gentiles.\n\nOsee Chapter 3\n\nThe prophet is commanded again to love an adulteress; to signify God's\nlove to the synagogue. The wretched state of the Jews for a long time,\ntill at last they shall be converted.\n\n3:1. And the Lord said to me: Go yet again, and love a woman beloved of\nher friend, and an adulteress: as the Lord loveth the children of\nIsrael, and they look to strange gods, and love the husks of the grapes.\n\n3:2. And I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a core\nof barley, and for half a core of barley.\n\n3:3. And I said to her: Thou shalt wait for me many days: thou shalt not\nplay the harlot, and thou shalt be no man's, and I also will wait for\nthee.\n\n3:4. For the children of Israel shall sit many days without king, and\nwithout prince, and without sacrifice, and without altar, and without\nephod, and without theraphim.\n\nTheraphim... Images or representations.\n\n3:5. And after this the children of Israel shall return and shall seek\nthe Lord, their God, and David, their king: and they shall fear the\nLord, and his goodness, in the last days.\n\nDavid their king... That is, Christ, who is of the house of David.\n\nOsee Chapter 4\n\nGod's judgment against the sins of Israel: Juda is warned not to follow\ntheir example.\n\n4:1. Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel, for the Lord\nshall enter into judgment with the inhabitants of the land: for there is\nno truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God in the\nland.\n\n4:2. Cursing, and lying, and killing, and theft, and adultery, have\noverflowed, and blood hath touched blood.\n\n4:3. Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth in it\nshall languish with the heat of the field, and with the fowls of the\nair: yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be gathered together.\n\n4:4. But yet let not any man judge: and let not a man be rebuked: for\nthy people are as they that contradict the priest.\n\nLet not any man judge, etc... As if he would say: It is in vain to\nstrive with them, or reprove them, they are so obstinate in evil.\n\n4:5. And thou shalt fall today, and the prophet also shall fall with\nthee: in the night I have made thy mother to be silent.\n\n4:6. My people have been silent, because they had no knowledge: because\nthou hast rejected knowledge, I will reject thee, that thou shalt not do\nthe office of priesthood to me: and thou hast forgotten the law of thy\nGod, I also will forget thy children.\n\n4:7. According to the multitude of them, so have they sinned against me:\nI will change their glory into shame.\n\n4:8. They shall eat the sins of my people, and shall lift up their souls\nto their iniquity.\n\n4:9. And there shall be like people like priest: and I will visit their\nways upon them, and I will repay them their devices.\n\n4:10. And they shall eat and shall not be filled: they have committed\nfornication, and have not ceased: because they have forsaken the Lord in\nnot observing the law.\n\n4:11. Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness, take away the\nunderstanding.\n\n4:12. My people have consulted their stocks, and their staff hath\ndeclared unto them: for the spirit of fornication hath deceived them,\nand they have committed fornication against their God.\n\n4:13. They offered sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burnt\nincense upon the hills: under the oak, and the poplar, and the\nturpentine tree, because the shadow thereof was good: therefore shall\nyour daughters commit fornication, and your spouses shall be\nadulteresses.\n\n4:14. I will not visit upon your daughters, when they shall commit\nfornication, and upon your spouses when they shall commit adultery:\nbecause themselves conversed with harlots, and offered sacrifice with\nthe effeminate, and the people that doth not understand shall be beaten.\n\n4:15. If thou play the harlot, O Israel, at least let not Juda offend:\nand go ye not into Galgal, and come not up into Bethaven, and do not\nswear: The Lord liveth.\n\nGalgal and Bethaven... Places where idols were worshipped. Bethel, which\nsignifies the house of God, is called by the prophet, Bethaven, that is,\nthe house of vanity, from Jeroboam's golden calf that was worshipped\nthere.\n\n4:16. For Israel hath gone astray like a wanton heifer now will the Lord\nfeed them, as a lamb in a spacious place.\n\n4:17. Ephraim is a partaker with idols, let him alone.\n\n4:18. Their banquet is separated, they have gone astray by fornication:\nthey that should have protected them have loved to bring shame upon\nthem.\n\n4:19. The wind hath bound them up in its wings, and they shall be\nconfounded because of their sacrifices.\n\nOsee Chapter 5\n\nGod's threats against the priests, the people, and princes of Israel,\nfor their idolatry.\n\n5:1. Hear ye this, O priests, and hearken, O ye house of Israel, and\ngive ear, O house of the king: for there is a judgment against you,\nbecause you have been a snare to them whom you should have watched over\nand a net spread upon Thabor.\n\nO priests... What is said of priests in this prophecy is chiefly\nunderstood of the priests of the kingdom of Israel; who were not true\npriests of the race of Aaron; but served the calves at Bethel and Dan.\n\n5:2. And you have turned aside victims into the depth and I am the\nteacher of them all.\n\n5:3. I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me for now Ephraim hath\ncommitted fornication, Israel is defiled.\n\n5:4. They will not set their thoughts to return to their God: for the\nspirit of fornication is in the midst of them, and they have not known\nthe Lord.\n\n5:5. And the pride of Israel shall answer in his face: and Israel, and\nEphraim shall fall in their iniquity, Juda also shall fall with them.\n\n5:6. With their flocks and with their herds, they shall go to seek the\nLord, and shall not find him: he is withdrawn from them.\n\n5:7. They have transgressed against the Lord: for they have begotten\nchildren that are strangers: now shall a month devour them with their\nportions.\n\nChildren that are strangers... That is, aliens from God: and therefore\nthey are threatened with speedy destruction.\n\n5:8. Blow ye the cornet in Gabaa, the trumpet in Rama: howl ye in\nBethaven, behind thy back, O Benjamin.\n\n5:9. Ephraim shall be in desolation in the day of rebuke: among the\ntribes of Israel I have shewn that which shall surely be.\n\n5:10. The princes of Juda are become as they that take up the bound: I\nwill pour out my wrath upon them like water.\n\nAs they that take up the bound... That is, they that remove the\nboundary, encroaching on the property of their neighbors: figuratively:\ngoing beyond the boundary of the laws of God.\n\n5:11. Ephraim is under oppression, and broken in judgment: because he\nbegan to go after filthiness.\n\n5:12. And I will be like a moth to Ephraim: and like rottenness to the\nhouse of Juda.\n\n5:13. And Ephraim saw his sickness, and Juda his band: and Ephraim went\nto the Assyrian, and sent to the avenging king: and he shall not be able\nto heal you, neither shall he be able to take off the band from you.\n\n5:14. For I will be like a lioness to Ephraim, and like a lion's whelp\nto the house of Juda: I, I will catch, and go: I will take away, and\nthere is none that can rescue.\n\n5:15. I will go and return to my place: until you are consumed, and seek\nmy face.\n\nOsee Chapter 6\n\nAffliction shall be a means to bring many to Christ, a complaint of the\nuntowardness of the Jews. God loves mercy more than sacrifice.\n\n6:1. In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us\nreturn to the Lord.\n\n6:2. For he hath taken us, and he will heal us: he will strike, and he\nwill cure us.\n\n6:3. He will revive us after two days: on the third day he will raise us\nup, and we shall live in his sight.  We shall know, and we shall follow\non, that we may know the Lord. His going forth is prepared as the\nmorning light, and he will come to us as the early and the latter rain\nto the earth.\n\n6:4. What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do to thee, O\nJuda? your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth away\nin the morning.\n\n6:5. For this reason have I hewed them by the prophets, I have slain\nthem by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments shall go forth as the\nlight.\n\n6:6. For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God\nmore than holocausts.\n\n6:7. But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant, there have\nthey dealt treacherously against me.\n\n6:8. Galaad is a city of workers of idols, supplanted with blood.\n\nSupplanted with blood... that is, undermined and brought to ruin, for\nshedding of blood: and, as it is signified in the following verse, for\nconspiring with the priests (of Bethel) like robbers, to murder in the\nway such as passed out of Sichem to go towards the temple of Jerusalem.\nOr else ...supplanted with blood... signifies flowing in such manner\nwith blood, as to suffer none to walk there without imbruing the soles\nof their feet in blood.\n\n6:9. And like the jaws of highway robbers, they conspire with the\npriests who murder in the way those that pass out of Sichem: for they\nhave wrought wickedness.\n\n6:10. I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the\nfornications of Ephraim there: Israel is defiled.\n\n6:11. And thou also, O Juda, set thee a harvest, when I shall bring back\nthe captivity of my people.\n\nOsee Chapter 7\n\nThe manifold sins of Israel, and of their kings, hinder the Lord from\nhealing them.\n\n7:1. When I would have healed Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was\ndiscovered, and the wickedness of Samaria, for they have committed\nfalsehood, and the thief is come in to steal, the robber is without.\n\n7:2. And lest they may say in their hearts, that I remember all their\nwickedness: their own devices now have beset them about, they have been\ndone before my face.\n\n7:3. They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and the princes\nwith their lies.\n\nMade the king glad, etc... To please Jeroboam, and their other kings\nthey have given themselves up to the wicked worship of idols, which are\nmere falsehood and lies.\n\n7:4. They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker: the city\nrested a little from the mingling of the leaven, till the whole was\nleavened.\n\n7:5. The day of our king, the princes began to be mad with wine: he\nstretched out his hand with scorners.\n\n7:6. Because they have applied their heart like an oven, when he laid\nsnares for them: he slept all the night baking them, in the morning he\nhimself was heated as a flaming fire.\n\n7:7. They were all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges:\nall their kings have fallen: there is none amongst them that calleth\nunto me.\n\n7:8. Ephraim himself is mixed among the nations: Ephraim is become as\nbread baked under the ashes, that is not turned.\n\n7:9. Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knew it not: yea, grey\nhairs also are spread about upon him, and he is ignorant of it.\n\n7:10. And the pride of Israel shall be humbled before his face: and they\nhave not returned to the Lord their God, nor have they sought him in all\nthese.\n\n7:11. And Ephraim is become as a dove that is decoyed, not having a\nheart: they called upon Egypt, they went to the Assyrians.\n\n7:12. And when they shall go, I will spread my net upon them: I will\nbring them down as the fowl of the air, I will strike them as their\ncongregation hath heard.\n\n7:13. Woe to them, for they have departed from me: they shall be wasted\nbecause they have transgressed against me: and I redeemed them: and they\nhave spoken lies against me.\n\n7:14. And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howled in\ntheir beds: they have thought upon wheat and wine, they are departed\nfrom me.\n\n7:15. And I have chastised them, and strengthened their arms: and they\nhave imagined evil against me.\n\n7:16. They returned, that they might be without yoke: they became like a\ndeceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of\ntheir tongue. This is their derision in the land of Egypt.\n\nOsee Chapter 8\n\nThe Israelites are threatened with destruction for their impiety and\nidolatry.\n\n8:1. Let there be a trumpet in thy throat like an eagle upon the house\nof the Lord: because they have transgressed my covenant, and have\nviolated my law.\n\n8:2. They shall call upon me: O my God, we, Israel, know thee.\n\n8:3. lsrael hath cast off the thing that is good, the enemy shall pursue\nhim.\n\n8:4. They have reigned, but not by me: they have been princes, and I\nknew not: of their silver and their gold they have made idols to\nthemselves, that they might perish.\n\n8:5. Thy calf, O Samaria, is cast off, my wrath is kindled against them.\nHow long will they be incapable of being cleansed?\n\n8:6. For itself also is the invention of Israel: a workman made it, and\nit is no god: for the calf of Samaria shall be turned to spiders' webs.\n\n8:7. For they shall sow wind, and reap a whirlwind, there is no standing\nstalk in it, the bud shall yield no meal; and if it should yield,\nstrangers shall eat it.\n\n8:8. Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the nations like an\nunclean vessel.\n\n8:9. For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself:\nEphraim hath given gifts to his lovers.\n\n8:10. But even though they shall have hired the nations, now will I\ngather them together: and they shall rest a while from the burden of the\nking, and the princes.\n\n8:11. Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin: altars are become to\nhim unto sin.\n\n8:12. I shall write to him my manifold laws, which have been accounted\nas foreign.\n\n8:13. They shall offer victims, they shall sacrifice flesh, and shall\neat it, and the Lord will not receive them: now will he remember their\niniquity, and will visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.\n\n8:14. And Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and hath built temples: and\nJuda hath built many fenced cities: and I will send a fire upon his\ncities, and it shall devour the houses thereof.\n\nOsee Chapter 9\n\nThe distress and captivity of Israel for their sins and idolatry.\n\n9:1. Rejoice not, O Israel: rejoice not as the nations do: for thou hast\ncommitted fornication against thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon\nevery cornfloor.\n\n9:2. The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the wine shall\ndeceive them.\n\n9:3. They shall not dwell in the Lord's land: Ephraim is returned to\nEgypt, and hath eaten unclean things among the Assyrians.\n\n9:4. They shall not offer wine to the Lord, neither shall they please\nhim: their sacrifices shall be like the bread of mourners: all that\nshall eat it shall be defiled: for their bread is life for their soul,\nit shall not enter into the house of the Lord.\n\n9:5. What will you do in the solemn day, in the day of the feast of the\nLord?\n\n9:6. For behold they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather\nthem together, Memphis shall bury them: nettles shall inherit their\nbeloved silver, the bur shall be in their tabernacles.\n\n9:7. The days of visitation are come, the days of repaying are come:\nknow ye, O Israel, that the prophet was foolish, the spiritual man was\nmad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the multitude of thy\nmadness.\n\n9:8. The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: the prophet is become a\nsnare of ruin upon all his ways, madness is in the house of his God.\n\n9:9. They have sinned deeply, as in the days of Gabaa: he will remember\ntheir iniquity, and will visit their sin.\n\n9:10. I found Israel like grapes in the desert, I saw their fathers like\nthe firstfruits of the fig tree in the top thereof: but they went in to\nBeelphegor, and alienated themselves to that confusion, and became\nabominable, as those things were, which they loved.\n\n9:11. As for Ephraim, their glory hath flown away like bird from the\nbirth, and from the womb, and from the conception.\n\n9:12. And though they should bring up their children, I will make them\nwithout children among men: yea, and woe to them, when I shall depart\nfrom them.\n\n9:13. Ephraim, as I saw, was a Tyre, founded in beauty: and Ephraim\nshall bring out his children to the murderer.\n\n9:14. Give them, O Lord. What wilt thou give them?  Give them a womb\nwithout children, and dry breasts.\n\n9:15. All their wickedness is in Galgal, for there I hated them: for the\nwickedness of their devices I will cast them forth out of my house: I\nwill love them no more, all their princes are revolters.\n\n9:16. Ephraim is struck, their root is dried up, they shall yield no\nfruit. And if they should have issue, I will slay the best beloved fruit\nof their womb.\n\n9:17. My God will cast them away, because they hearkened not to him: and\nthey shall be wanderers among the nations.\n\nOsee Chapter 10\n\nAfter many benefits, great affliction shall fall upon the ten tribes,\nfor their ingratitude to God.\n\n10:1. Israel a vine full of branches, the fruit is agreeable to it:\naccording to the multitude of his fruit, he hath multiplied altars,\naccording to the plenty of his land he hath abounded with idols.\n\n10:2. Their heart is divided: now they shall perish: he shall break down\ntheir idols, he shall destroy their altars.\n\n10:3. For now they shall say: We have no king: because we fear not the\nLord: and what shall a king do to us?\n\n10:4. You speak words of an unprofitable vision, and you shall make a\ncovenant: and judgment shall spring up as bitterness in the furrows of\nthe field.\n\n10:5. The inhabitants of Samaria have worshipped the kine of Bethaven:\nfor the people thereof have mourned over it, and the wardens of its\ntemple that rejoiced over it in its glory because it is departed from\nit.\n\nThe kine of Bethaven... The golden calves of Jeroboam.\n\n10:6. For itself also is carried into Assyria, a present to the avenging\nking: shame shall fall upon Ephraim, and Israel shall be confounded in\nhis own will.\n\nItself also is carried, etc... One of the golden calves was given by\nking Manahem, to Phul, king of the Assyrians, to engage him to stand by\nhim.\n\n10:7. Samaria hath made her king to pass as froth upon the face of the\nwater.\n\n10:8. And the high places of the idol, the sin of Israel shall be\ndestroyed: the bur and the thistle shall grow up over their altars: and\nthey shall say to the mountains Cover us; and to the hills: Fall upon\nus.\n\n10:9. From the days of Gabaa, Israel hath sinned, there they stood: the\nbattle in Gabaa against the children of iniquity shall not overtake\nthem.\n\n10:10. According to my desire, I will chastise them: and the nations\nshall be gathered together against them, when they shall be chastised\nfor their two iniquities.\n\nTheir two iniquities... Their two calves.\n\n10:11. Ephraim is a heifer taught to love to tread out corn, but I\npassed over upon the beauty of her neck: I will ride upon Ephraim, Juda\nshall plough, Jacob shall break the furrows for himself.\n\n10:12. Sow for yourselves in justice, and reap in the mouth of mercy,\nbreak up your fallow ground: but the time to seek the Lord is, when he\nshall come that shall teach you justice.\n\n10:13. You have ploughed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity, you have\neaten the fruit of lying: because thou hast trusted in thy ways, in the\nmultitude of thy strong ones.\n\n10:14. A tumult shall arise among thy people: and all thy fortresses\nshall be destroyed as Salmana was destroyed, by the house of him that\njudged Baal in the day of battle, the mother being dashed in pieces upon\nher children.\n\nAs Salmana, king of the Midianites, was destroyed by the house, that is,\nby the followers of him that judged Baal; that is, of Gideon, who threw\ndown the altar of Baal; and was therefore called Jerubaal. See Judges 6\nand 8.\n\n10:15. So hath Bethel done to you, because of the evil of your\niniquities.\n\nOsee Chapter 11\n\nGod proceeds in threatening Israel for their ingratitude: yet he will\nnot utterly destroy them.\n\n11:1. As the morning passeth, so hath the king of Israel passed away.\nBecause Israel was a child, and I loved him: and I called my son out of\nEgypt.\n\nI called my son... Viz., Israel. But as the calling of Israel out of\nEgypt, was a figure of the calling of Christ from thence; therefore this\ntext is also applicable to Christ, as we learn from Matthew 2.15.\n\n11:2. As they called them, they went away from before their face: they\noffered victims to Baalim, and sacrificed to idols.\n\nThey called... Viz., Moses and Aaron called; but they went away after\nother gods and would not hear.\n\n11:3. And I was like a foster father to Ephraim, I carried them in my\narms: and they knew not that I healed them.\n\n11:4. I will draw them with the cords of Adam, with the bands of love:\nand I will be to them as one that taketh off the yoke on their jaws: and\nI put his meat to him that he might eat.\n\n11:5. He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall\nbe his king: because they would not be converted.\n\n11:6. The sword hath begun in his cities, and it shall consume his\nchosen men, and shall devour their heads.\n\n11:7. And my people shall long for my return: but a yoke shall be put\nupon them together, which shall not be taken off.\n\n11:8. How shall I deal with thee, O Ephraim, shall I protect thee, O\nIsrael? how shall I make thee as Adama, shall I set thee as Seboim? my\nheart is turned within me, my repentance is stirred up.\n\nAdama, etc... Adama and Seboim were two cities in the neighborhood of\nSodom: and underwent the like destruction.\n\n11:9. I will not execute the fierceness of my wrath: I will not return\nto destroy Ephraim: because I am God, and not man: the holy one in the\nmidst of thee, and I will not enter into the city.\n\n11:10. They shall walk after the Lord, he shall roar as a lion: because\nhe shall roar, and the children of the sea shall fear.\n\n11:11. And they shall fly away like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove\nout of the land of the Assyrians: and I will place them in their own\nhouses, saith the Lord.\n\n11:12. Ephraim hath compassed me about with denials, and the house of\nIsrael with deceit: but Juda went down as a witness with God, and is\nfaithful with the saints.\n\nOsee Chapter 12\n\nIsrael is reproved for sin. God's favours to them.\n\n12:1. Ephraim feedeth on the wind, and followeth the burning heat: all\nthe day long he multiplied lies and desolation: and he hath made a\ncovenant with the Assyrians, and carried oil into Egypt.\n\n12:2. Therefore there is a judgment of the Lord with Juda, and a\nvisitation for Jacob: he will render to him according to his ways, and\naccording to his devices.\n\n12:3. In the womb he supplanted his brother: and by his strength he had\nsuccess with an angel.\n\n12:4. And he prevailed over the angel, and was strengthened: he wept,\nand made supplication to him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke\nwith us.\n\n12:5. Even the Lord God of hosts, the Lord is his memorial.\n\n12:6. Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and hope\nin thy God always.\n\n12:7. He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he\nhath loved oppression.\n\n12:8. And Ephraim said: But yet I am become rich, I have found me an\nidol: all my labours shall not find me the iniquity that I have\ncommitted.\n\n12:9. And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt, will yet\ncause thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the feast.\n\n12:10. And I have spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions,\nand I have used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets.\n\n12:11. If Galaad be an idol, then in vain were they in Galgal offering\nsacrifices with bullocks: for their altars also are as heaps in the\nfurrows of the field.\n\nIf Galaad be an idol, etc... That is, if Galaad with all its idols and\nsacrifices be like a mere idol itself, being brought to nothing by\nTheglathphalasar: how vain is it to expect, that the idols worshipped in\nGalgal shall be of any service to the tribes that remain.\n\n12:12. Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a\nwife, and was a keeper for a wife.\n\n12:13. But the Lord by a prophet brought Israel out of Egypt: and he was\npreserved by a prophet.\n\n12:14. Ephraim hath provoked me to wrath with his bitterness, and his\nblood shall come upon him, and his Lord will render his reproach unto\nhim.\n\nOsee Chapter 13\n\nThe judgments of God upon Israel for their sins. Christ shall one day\nredeem them.\n\n13:1. When Ephraim spoke, a horror seized Israel: and he sinned in Baal,\nand died.\n\n13:2. And now they have sinned more and more: and they have made to\nthemselves a molten thing of their silver as the likeness of idols: the\nwhole is the work of craftsmen: to these that say: Sacrifice men, ye\nthat adore calves.\n\n13:3. Therefore they shall be as a morning cloud, and as the early dew\nthat passeth away, as the dust that is driven with a whirlwind out of\nthe floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.\n\n13:4. But I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt: and thou shalt\nknow no God but me, and there is no saviour beside me.\n\n13:5. I knew thee in the desert, in the land of the wilderness.\n\n13:6. According to their pastures they were filled, and were made full:\nand they lifted up their heart, and have forgotten me.\n\n13:7. And I will be to them as a lioness, as a leopard in the way of the\nAssyrians.\n\n13:8. I will meet them as a bear that is robbed of her whelps, and I\nwill rend the inner parts of their liver: and I will devour them there\nas a lion, the beast of the field shall tear them.\n\n13:9. Destruction is thy own, O Israel: thy help is only in me.\n\n13:10. Where is thy king? now especially let him save thee in all thy\ncities: and thy judges, of whom thou saidst: Give me kings and princes.\n\n13:11. I will give thee a king in my wrath, and will take him away in my\nindignation.\n\n13:12. The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up, his sin is hidden.\n\n13:13. The sorrows of a woman in labour shall come upon him, he is an\nunwise son: for now he shall not stand in the breach of the children.\n\n13:14. I will deliver them out of the hand of death. I will redeem them\nfrom death: O death, I will be thy death; O hell, I will be thy bite:\ncomfort is hidden from my eyes.\n\n13:15. Because he shall make a separation between brothers: the Lord\nwill bring a burning wind that shall rise from the desert, and it shall\ndry up his springs, and shall make his fountain desolate, and he shall\ncarry off the treasure of every desirable vessel.\n\nOsee Chapter 14\n\nSamaria shall be destroyed. An exhortation to repentance: God's favour\nthrough Christ to the penitent.\n\n14:1. Let Samaria perish, becsuse she hath stirred up her God to\nbitterness: let them perish by the sword, let their little ones be\ndashed, and let the women with child be ripped up.\n\nPerish, because she hath stirred up her God to bitterness... It is not a\ncurse or imprecation, but a prophecy of what should come to pass.\n\n14:2. Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen down\nby thy iniquity.\n\n14:3. Take with you words, and return to the Lord, and say to him: Take\naway all iniquity, and receive the good: and we will render the calves\nof our lips.\n\n14:4. Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses, neither\nwill we say any more: The works of our hands are our gods: for thou wilt\nhave mercy on the fatherless that is in thee.\n\n14:5. I will heal their breaches, I will love them freely: for my wrath\nis turned away from them.\n\n14:6. I will be as the dew, Israel shall spring as the lily, and his\nroot shall shoot forth as that of Libanus.\n\n14:7. His branches shall spread, and his glory shall be as the olive\ntree: and his smell as that of Libanus.\n\n14:8. They shall be converted that sit under his shadow: they shall live\nupon wheat, and they shall blossom as a vine: his memorial shall be as\nthe wine of Libanus.\n\n14:9. Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I will\nhear him, and I will make him flourish like a green fir tree: from me is\nthy fruit found.\n\n14:10. Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and\nhe shall know these things? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the\njust shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall in them.","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 33: Osee: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":6813}