Episode 219: Miscarrying wombs and dry breasts

Hosea 6-14

They commit lewdness

6 ¹ Let's return to God. He's torn us and will heal us.

² He'll revive us after two days, and on the third day he will raise us up.

⁵ I [God] killed Ephraim and Judah with the words of my mouth.

⁶ I desire mercy, not sacrifice.

⁹ The priests commit lewdness.

¹⁰ There is whoredom in Ephraim.

Woe unto them!

7 ¹ I would have healed Israel, but Ephraim and Samaria were wicked.

⁴ They are all adulterers.

⁸ Ephraim has mixed with other people.

⁹ Strangers have devoured his strength.

¹² I'll spread my net upon them.

¹³ Woe unto them! Because they have run away from me. And because they have disobeyed me.

¹⁴ And they didn't cry to me when they howled on their beds.

¹⁶ Their princes will die by the sword for what they said.

I'll burn their cities

8 ¹ Put a trumpet to your lips.

⁴ Israel has kings that I didn't select. And princes without my knowledge.

⁷ They have sown the wind, and shall reap the whirlwind.

⁹ Ephraim has hired lovers.

¹⁴ I'll burn the cities in Israel and Judah.

Give them miscarrying wombs and dry breasts

9 ¹ Don't be happy, Israel, because you've gone a whoring from your God.

You've had sex on every threshing floor.

⁷ The prophet is a fool, and the spiritual man is mad.

¹¹ As for Ephraim, I will kill their children.

¹⁴ What will you Give them, God? Give them miscarrying wombs and dry breasts.

¹⁵ I hated them for their wickedness. I will love them no more.

¹⁶ I will kill their children, whom they dearly love.

¹⁷ God will throw them away since they didn't listen to him.

The mother was dashed in pieces upon her children

10 ⁸ The thorn and the thistle will say to the mountains, cover us, and to the hills, fall on us.

¹⁴ Conflict will break out among the people. Mothers will be dashed in pieces with their children.

God will roar like a lion

11 ¹ When Israel was a child, I called him out of Egypt.

⁶ The sword will kill the people in Ephraim's cities.

¹⁰ God will roar like a lion, and the people will tremble.

Ephraim feeds on wind

12 ¹ Ephraim feeds on the wind.

⁴ Jacob fought with the angel and won.

Their infants shall be dashed in pieces, their women with child shall be ripped up

13 ¹ When Ephraim offended me with Baal, he died.

^7-8 I'll rip them apart like a lion or a leopard and eat them.

¹⁴ I'll send plagues and destruction, but repentance will be hidden from my eyes.

¹⁵ God's wind will come and make the land desolate.

¹⁶ Samaria rebelled against God, so they will die by the sword.

Their children will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped apart.

We won't ride on horses

14 ³ We won't ride on horses.

⁶ Israel smells like Lebanon.

⁸ Ephraim will say, "I'm like a green fir tree. Your fruit's on my tree."

⁹ Wise people will understand these things.