Chap. I. ^note In signification of the peoples idolatrie, the prophet marieth a fornicatrix: 4. by his childrens names foresheweth their great, and long captiuitie: 11. And afterwards their redemption together with al nations.

1   The word of our Lord, that was made to Osee the sonne of Beeri, in the dayes of Ozias, Ioathan, Achaz, Ezechias kinges of Iuda, and in the dayes ^noteof Ieroboam the sonne of Ioas king of Israel.

2   The beginning to our Lord of speaking in Osee: and our Lord sayd to Osee: Goe, take thee a wife ^note of fornications, and ^notemake children ^note of fornications: because the land fornicating shal fornicate from the Lord.

3   And he went, and tooke Gomer the daughter of Debelaim: and she conceiued, and bare him a sonne.

4   And our Lord sayd to him: Cal his name Iezrahel: because yet a litle while, & I wil visite the bloud ^note of Iezrahel vpon the house of Iehu, and I wil make the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.

5   And in that day I wil breake the bow of Israel in the valley of Iezrahel.

6   And she conceiued yet agayne, and bare a daughter, & he sayd to him: Cal her name, Without mercie: because I wil adde no more to haue mercie on the house of Israel, but with obliuion I wil forget them.

7   And I wil haue mercie on the house of Iuda, and wil saue them in the Lord their God: & I wil not saue them in bow and sword, and in battel, and in horses, & in horsemen.

8   And she weyned her that was, Without mercie. And she conceiued, and bare a sonne.

9   And he sayd: Cal his name, Not my people: because you not my people, and I wil not be yours.

10   And the number of the children of Israel shal be as the sand of the sea, that is without measure, and shal not be numbered. And it shal be in place where it shal be sayd to them: Not my people you: it shal be sayd to them: ^note Children of the liuing God.

11   And the children of Iuda, and the children of Israel shal be gathered together: and they shal set to themselues, ^noteone head, and shal ascend out of the earth: because great is the day of Iezrahel. Chap. II. He admonisheth the two tribes of their sinnes, threatning their captiuitie in Babylon. 1. Sheweth the abundance of grace in the Church of Christ, and multitude of nations to be conuerted.

1   Say ^note ye to your bretheren: My people: & to your sister, She that hath obteyned mercie.

2   Iudge your mother, iudge ye: because she not my wife, and I not her husband. Let her take away her fornications from her face, and her adulteries from the middes of her brests.

3   Lest perhaps I strippe her naked, and set her according to the day of her natiuitie: and I wil lay her as a wildernes, and wil set her as a land vnpassible, and wil kil her with drought.

4   And ^note I wil not haue mercie on her children: because they are the children of fornications.

5   because their mother hath fornicated, she is confounded that conceiued them: because she sayd: I wil goe after my louers, that geue me my breads, and my waters, my wool, & my flaxe, mine oile, and my drinke.

6   For this behold I wil hedge thy way with thornes, and I wil hedge it with a wal, and she shal not finde her pathes.

7   And she shal folow her louers, & shal not ouertake them: and she shal seeke them, and shal not find, and she shal say: I wil goe, and wil returne to my former husband: because it was wel with me then, more then now.

8   And she did not know that I gaue her corne, and wine, and oile, and multiplied siluer vnto her, & gold, which they haue made to Baal.

9   Therfore wil I returne, and wil take my corne in his time, and my wine in his time, and I wil deliuer my wool, and my flaxe, which couered her ignominie.

10   And now I wil reuele her follie in the eyes of her louers: and there shal not a man deliuer her out of my hand:

11   and I wil make al her ioy to cease, her solemnitie, her new moone, her sabbath, & al her festiual times.

12   And I wil destroy her vine, & her figtree: of which she said: These are my rewardes, which my louers haue geuen me: and I wil lay her as a forrest, & the beast of the filde shal eate her.

13   And I wil visite vpon her the dayes of Baalim, to whom she burnt incense, & was adorned with her earlet, and with her tablet, and went after her louers, & forgot me, sayth our Lord.

14    ^noteFor this, loe I wil allure her, & wil leade her into the wildernes: & I wil speake to her hart.

15   And I wil geue her dressers of vines out of the same place, and the vale of Achor to open hope: and she shal sing there according to the dayes of her youth, and according to the dayes of her ascending out of the Land of Ægypt.

16   And it shal be in that day, saith our Lord: She shal cal me: My husband, and she shal cal me no more, Baalim.

17   And I wil take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and she shal no more remember their name.

18   And I wil make with them a league in that day, with the beast of the filde, and with the foule of the heauen, and with that, which creepeth on the earth: and bow, and sword, and battel I wil destroy out of the earth: and I wil make them sleepe confidently.

19   And I wil despouse thee to me for euer: and I wil despouse thee to me in iustice, and iudgement, and in mercie, and in commiserations.

20   And I wil despouse thee to me in faith: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

21   And it shal be in that day: I wil heare, sayth our Lord, I wil heare the heauens, and they shal heare the earth.

22   And the earth shal heare wheate, and wine, and oile: and these shal heare Iezrahel.

23   And I wil sow her vnto me into the earth, and ^note I wil haue mercie on her, that was Without mercie.

24   And I wil say to Not my people: My people art thou: and it shal say: Thou art my God. Chap. III. The prophet is commanded againe to loue an aduoutresse: 3. whom he maketh long to expect her husband: to signifie Gods loue to the Synagogue: 4. and the Iewes state in the new testament. 5. who at last shal be conuerted to Christ.

1   And our Lord sayd to me: Yet againe goe, loue a woman beloued of her frend, and an aduoutresse; ^note as our Lord loueth the children of Israel, and they haue respect to strange goddes, and loue the kernels of grapes.

2   And I ^note digged her vnto me for ^note fiftene peeces of siluer, and for a core of barley, and for halfe a core of barley.

3   And I sayd to her: Thou shalt expect me manie dayes: thou shalt not fornicate, & thou shalt be no mans: but I also wil expect thee.

4   Because manie dayes shal the children of Israel sit without king, & without prince, and without sacrifice, and without altar, and without ephod, and without ^note theraphim.

5   And after this the children of Israel shal returne, & shal seeke the Lord their God, and Dauid their king: and they shal dread at the Lord, and at his goodnes in the last dayes.

Chap. IIII. Diuers great sinnes of both kingdomes, 3. are the cause of great punishments threatned, 15. yet the sinnes of Iuda are lesse excusable, because they haue more meanes to serue God.

1   Heare the word of our Lord ye ^note children of Israel, because there is iudgement to our Lord with the inhabitants of the land: for there is no truth, and there is no mercie, and there is ^note no knowlege of God in the land.

2   Cursing, and lying, and manslaughter, and theft, and aduoutrie haue ouerflowed, and bloud hath touched bloud.

3   For this shal the land moorne, and euerie one shal be weakened that dwelleth in it, in the beast of the filde, and in the foule of the heauen: yea and the fishes of the sea shal be gathered together.

4   But yet let not euerie man iudge: and let not a man be rebuked: for thy people are as those, that gayne say the priest.

5   And thou shalt fal to day, and the prophete also shal fal with thee: in the night I made thy mother hold her peace.

6   My people haue held their peace, because they had not knowlege: because thou hast repelled knowlege, I wil repel thee, ^note that thou doe not the function of priesthood vnto me: and thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also wil forget thy children.

7   According to the multitude of them so haue they sinned to me: their glorie I wil change into ignominie.

8   They shal eate ^note the sinnes of my people, and at their iniquitie shal lift vp their soules.

9   And as the people, so shal the priest be: & I wil visite their wayes vpon them, and their cogitations I wil render to them.

10   And they shal eate and shal not be filled: they haue fornicated, and haue not ceased: because they haue forsaken our Lord in not obseruing.

11   Fornication, and wine, and drunkenes take away the hart.

12   My people hath asked in their wood, and their staffe hath declared vnto them: for ^note the spirit of fornications hath deceiued them, and they haue fornicated from their God.

13   Vpon the heads of mountaines they did sacrifice, and vpon litle hilles they burnt incense: vnder the oke, and the poplartree, and the terebinth, because the shadow therof was good: therfore shal your daughters fornicate, and your spouses shal be aduoutresses.

14   I wil not visite vpon your daughters when they shal fornicate, and vpon your spouses when they shal commit aduoutrie: because they them selues conuerst with harlots, and with the effeminate they did

sacrifice, and the people not vnderstanding shal be beaten.

15   If thou fornicate ^note ô Israel, at the least let not Iuda offend: and enter ye not into Galgal, and goe not vp into Bethauen, neither sweare ye: Our Lord liueth.

16   Because Israel hath declined as a wanton cow: now wil our Lord feede them, as a lambe in latitude.

17   Ephraim is partaker of idols, let him alone.

18   Their banket is separated, with fornication they haue fornicated: the protectours therof loued to bring ignominie.

19   The spirit hath bound him in his winges, and they shal be confounded at their sacrifices. Chap. V. The prophet reprehendeth the priestes, and princes of both kingdomes, for drawing the people to idolatrie. 8. denouncing captiuitie for the same.

1   Heare ye this ^note ô priestes, and attend ye house of Israel, and you the kinges house harken: because there is iudgement for you, because you are become a snare to speculation, and a nette spred vpon Thabor.

2   And victims you haue declined into the depth: and I the teacher of them al.

3   I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: because now hath Ephraim fornicated, Israel is contaminated.

4   They wil not geue their cogitations to returne to their God: because the spirit of fornications is in the middes of them, and they haue not knowen the Lord.

5   And the arrogancie of Israel shal answere in his face: and Israel, and Ephraim shal fal in their iniquitie, Iudas also shal fal with them.

6   In their flockes, and in their heardes they shal goe to seeke the Lord, and shal not finde: he is taken away from them.

7   They haue preuaricated against the Lord, because they haue begotten strange children: now shal a moneth deuoure them with their partes.

8    ^noteSound with the trumpet in Gabaa, and with the shaulme in Rama: howle ye in Bethauen, behind thy backe ô Beniamin

9   Ephraim shal be in desolation in the day of correction: in the tribes of Israel I haue shewed faith.

10   The princes of Iuda are become as they that take the bound: I wil power out my wrath as water vpon them.

11   Ephraim is suffering calumnie, broken in iudgement: because he began to goe after filthines.

12   And I as it were a mothe to Ephraim: and as the rotte to the house of Iuda.

13   And Ephraim saw his sicknes, and Iuda his band: and Ephraim went to Assur, and sent to the king reuenger: and he shal not be able to heale you, neither shal he be

able to loose the band from you.

14   Because I as it were a lionesse to Ephraim, and as a lions whelpe to the house of Iuda: I, I wil take, and goe: I wil take away, and there is none that can deliuer.

15   Going I wil returne to my place: vntil you fayle and seeke my face. Chap. VI. ^note By afflictions the people wil returne to God, and hope in Christ to come. 4. both the kingdomes sinning (6. and thincking to be spared for their sacrifices, neglecting workes of mercie) 7. shal be punished. 11. but at last deliuered from captiuitie.

1   In their tribulation early they wil rise vp to me: Come, and let vs returne to our Lord.

2   Because he ^note hath wounded, and wil heale vs: he wil strike, and wil cure vs.

3   He wil reuiue vs after two dayes: in ^note the third day he wil raise vs vp, and we shal liue in his sight. We shal know, and we shal folow, that we may know our Lord. As the morning light, is his coming forth prepared, and he wil come to vs as a shower timely, and late to the earth.

4   What shal I do to thee Ephraim? what shal I doe to thee Iuda? your mercie as a morning clowd, and as the dew passing away in the morning.

5   For this haue I hewed in prophets, I haue killed them in the wordes of my mouth: and thy iudgements shal come forth as the light.

6   Because I would mercie, & not sacrifice: and the knowlege of God more then holocausts.

7   But they as Adam haue trangressed the couenant, there haue they preuaricated against me.

8   Galaad a citie of them that worke idol, supplanted with bloud.

9   And as it were the iawes of men that are robbers, partaker with the priests, of them that in the way kil those that passe out of Sichem: because they haue wrought wickednes.

10   In the house of Israel I saw an horrible thing: there the fornications of Ephraim: Israel is contaminated.

11   Yea and thou Iuda put thee an haruest, when I shal conuert the captiuitie of my people. Chap. VII. Since Ieroboam made schisme in religion that kindom hath fallen into manie distresses: 10. and not repenting shal indure more.

1   VVhen ^note I would heale Israel, the iniquitie of Ephraim was reueled, and the malice of Samaria, because they haue wrought lying, and the theefe hath entered in spoyling,

the robber without.

2   And lest perhaps they may say in their hartes, that I haue remembred al their malice: now haue their owne inuentions compassed them, they haue bene done before me.

3   In their malice they haue reioyced the king: and in their lies the princes.

4   Al they committing aduoutrie, as it were an ouen heated of the baker: the citie was quiet a litle from the comistion of leauen, til the whole was leuened.

5   The day of our king, ^note the princes begane to rage by reason of wine: he streched out his hand with the scorners.

6   Because they haue applied their hart as an ouen, when he lay in wayte for them: he slept al the night baking them, in the morning himself heated as a fire of flame.

7   Al were heated as an ouen, and haue deuoured their iudges: al their kinges are fallen: there is none amongst them that crieth vnto me.

8   Ephraim him self was ^note mingled in the peoples: Ephraim is become as harth-baken-bread, ^note that is not turned.

9   Strangers haue eaten his strength, and he knew not: yea hore heares also were powred out on him, and he was ignorant.

10   And the pride of Israel ^note shal be humbled in his face: neither did they returne to the Lord their God, & they haue not sought him in al these.

11   And Ephraim is become as a doue seduced, not hauing an hart: they inuocated Ægypt, they went to the Assyrians.

12   And when they shal goe forth, I wil spred my nette vpon them: as a foule of the heauen wil I plucke them downe, I wil beate them according to the hearing of their assemblie.

13   Wo to them, because they haue reuolted from me: they shal be wasted because they haue preuaricated against me: & I redemed them and they haue spoken lies against me.

14   And they haue not cried to me in their hart, but they howled in their chambers: vpon wheate and wine they chewed the cudde, they are reuolted from me.

15   And I haue taught them, and strengthened their armes: and against me they haue thought malice.

16   They returned, that they might be without yoke: they became as a deceitful bow: their princes shal fal by the sword, for the furie of their tongue. This is their scorning in the Land of Ægypt. Chap. VIII. The Chaldees shal destroy the temple. 3. But the tenne tribes shal first be caried into captiuitie, 6. for worshiping the image of a calf.

1   In thy throte let there be a trumpet as an eagle vpon ^note the house of the Lord: for that they haue trangressed my

couenant, and haue preuaricated my law.

2   Me they shal inuocate: My God, we ^note Israel haue knowen thee.

3   Israel hath cast away the good thing, the enemie shal persecute him.

4   They haue reigned, and not of me: they haue bene princes, and I knew not: their siluer, and their gold they made idols to themselues, that they might perish.

5   Thy calfe is cast of ô Samaria, my furie is wrath against them. How long can they not be clensed?

6   Because it self also is of Israel: the workman made it, and it is not God: because the calfe of Samaria shal be as spiders webbes.

7   Because they shal sow winde, and reape a whirlewind: there is no standing stalke in it, the bud shal not yeld meale: and if it doe yeld, strangers shal eate it.

8   Israel is deuoured: Now is he become in nations as an vncleane vessel.

9   Because they went vp to Assur, a wilde asse solitarie to himself: Ephraim haue geuen gifts to louers.

10   Yea and when they shal hyre the nations with reward, now wil I gather them together: and they shal rest a while from the burden of the king, and the princes.

11   Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars to sinne: altars are made to him vnto sinne.

12   I wil write to him my manifold lawes, which haue bene accounted as strange.

13   They shal offer hostes, they shal immolate flesh, and shal eate, and the Lord wil not receiue them: now wil he remember their iniquitie, and wil visite their sinnes: they shal returne into Ægypt.

14   And Israel hath forgotten his maker, and hath built temples: and ^note Iudas hath multiplied sensed cities: and I wil cast fire on his cities, and it shal deuoure the houses therof. Chap. IX. ^note The tenne tribes shal suffer famine: 12. be depriued of their children: 15 and made captiue.

1   Be not glad Israel, reioyce not as the peoples: because thon hast fornicated from thy God, thou hast loued reward aboue al the flores of wheate.

2   The flore and the winepresse shal not feede them, and the wine shal lie to them.

3   They shal not dwel in the land of our Lord: ^note Ephraim is returned into Ægypt, and among the Assyrians he hath eaten the thing polluted.

4   They shal not offer wine to our Lord, and they shal not please him: their sacrifices as the bread of mourners: al that shal eate it, shal be contaminated: because their bread for their soule, shal not enter into the house of our Lord.

5   what will you doe in the solemne day, in the day

of the festiuitie of our Lord?

6   For behold they are gone forth from destruction: Ægypt shal gather them together, Memphis shal burie them: their siluer to be desyred the nettle shal inherite, the burre in their tabernacles.

7   The dayes of visitation are come, the dayes are come of retributions: know ^note ô Israel the foolish prophete, ^note the mad spiritual man, for the multitude of thine iniquitie, the multitude also madnes.

8   The watchman of Ephraim with my God: the prophete is made a snare of ruine vpon al his wayes, madnes in the house of his God.

9   They haue sinned deeply, as in the dayes of Gabaa: he wil remember their iniquitie, and wil visite their sinne.

10   As grapes in the desert I found Israel: as the first fruites of the figtree in the toppe therof I saw their fathers: but they haue entered into Beelphegor, and are alienated into confusion, and are become abominable, as those thinges, which they loued.

11   Ephraim as a bird hath flowen away, their glorie from birth, and from the wombe, and from conception.

12   But if they shal nourish vp their children, I wil make them without children among men: yea & wo to them, when I shal depart from them.

13   Ephraim, as I saw, ^note was Tyre founded in beautie: and Ephraim shal lead out his children to the murderer.

14   Geue them ô Lord, what wilt thou geue to them? Geue them a wombe without children, and drie brests.

15   Al their wicked in Galgal, because there I hated them: for the malice of their inentions I wil cast them forth out of my house: I wil not adde to loue them, al their princes reuolters.

16   Ephraim is strooken, their roote is dried vp, they shal yeld no fruite. But and if they shal haue issue, I wil kil the best beloued things of their wombe.

17   My God wil cast them away, because they heare him not: and they shal be vagabunds in the nations. Chap. X. ^note After manie benefites, and aduancement, much affliction shal fal vpon the tenne tribes, for their ingratitude towards God.

1   Israel a vine ^note thicke of branches, the fruite is made equal to it: according to the multitude of his fruite he hath multiplied altars, according to the plentie of his land he hath abunded in idols.

2   Their hart is diuided, now they shal perish: he shal breake their idols, he shal destroy their altars.

3   Because they wil now say: We haue no king: for we feare not our Lord: and what shal a king do to vs?

4   You speake wordes of vnprofitable

vision, and you shal make a couenant: & iudgement shal spring as bitternes vpon the furrowes of the filde.

5   The kine of ^note Bethauen haue the inhabitans of Samaria worshipped: Because his people mourned vpon him, & his temple wardens reioyced vpon him in his glorie, because it departed from him.

6   For he also was caried vnto Assur, a gift to the king Reuenger: confusion shal take Ephraim, & Israel shal be confunded in his owne wil.

7   Samaria hath made her king to passe as fr&obar;th vpon the face of water.

8   And the excelses of the idol the sinne of Israel shal be destroyed: the burre and the thistle shal grow vp ouer their altars: and they shal say to the mountaines: Couer vs; and to the litle hilles: Fal vpon vs.

9   From the Dayes ^note of Gabaa, Israel hath sinned, there they stood: the battel in Gabaa vpon the children of iniquitie shal not apprehend them.

10   According to my desire I wil chastise them: and the peoples shal be gathered together vpon them, when they shal be chastised for their two inquities.

11   Ephraim an heifer taught to loue threshing, and I haue passed ouer the beautie of her necke: I wil ascend vpon Ephraim, Iudas shal plough, Iacob shal breake the furrowes to him self.

12   Sow to your selues in iustice, and reape in the mouth of mercie, fallow ground: but the time to seeke our Lord, when he shal come that shal teach you iustice.

13   you haue ploughed inpietie, you haue reaped iniquitie, you haue eaten the fruite of lying: because thou hast trusted in thy wayes, in the multitude of thy strong ones.

14   A tumult shal arise in thy people: & al thy munitions shal be destroyed as Salmana was destroyed by his house that tooke vengeance on Baal in the day of battel, the mother being dashed in peeces vpon the children.

15   So hath Bethel done to you, because of the malice of your iniquities. Chap. XI. ^note The kingdom of Israel is further admonished, and threatned, 10. of which tribes manie shal beleue in Christ.

1   As the morning passed, hath the king of Israel passed away. Because Israel was a child, and I loued him: and ^note out of Ægypt I called my sonne.

2   They called them, so they departed from their face: they immolated to Baalim, & sacrificed to idols.

3   And I as it were the nurse of Ephraim, caried them in myne armes: and they knew not that I cured them.

4   In the cordes ^note of Adam I wil draw them, in the bands of charitie:

and I wil be to them as lifting vp the yoke vpon their cheekes: and I declined to him that he might eate.

5   He shal not returne into the Land of Ægypt, and Assur he his king: because they would not conuert.

6   The sword hath begune in his cities, and it shal consume his elect, and shal eate their heades.

7   And my people shal hang vpon my returne: but a yoke shal be put vpon them together, which shal not be taken away.

8   how shal I geue thee Ephraim, protect thee Israel? how shal I geue thee as Adama, lay thee as Seboim? My hart is turned within, my repentance is disturbed together.

9   I wil not doe the furie of my wrath: I wil not returne to destroy Ephraim: because I am ^note God, and not ^note man: in the middes of thee the Holie one, and I wil not enter into the citie.

10   They shal walke after our Lord, as a lion wil he roare: because he wil roare, and the children of the sea shal feare.

11   And they shal flie away as a bird out of Ægypt, and as a doue out of the Land of the Assyrians: and I wil place them in their houses, saith our Lord.

12   Ephraim hath compassed me in denying, and the house of Israel in deceite: but Iudas a witnesse is descended with God, and with the sainctes, faithful. Chap. XII. ^note The people by their sinnes procure their owne miseries, 3. not regarding Iacobs vertues.

1   Ephraim ^note feedeth the winde, and foloweth the heate: al the day he multiplieth lying and waste: and he hath made a league with the Assyrians, and he caried oyle into Ægypt.

2   The iudgement therfore of our Lord with Iuda, and visitation vpon Iacob: according to his wayes, and according to his inuentions he wil render to him.

3   In the wombe he supplanted his brother: and in his strength he was directed with the Angel.

4   And he preuailed against the Angel, and was strengthened: and he wept, and besought him: in Bethel he found him, an there he spake with vs.

5   And our Lord the God of hostes, the Lord is his memorial.

6   And thou shalt conuert to thy God: keepe mercie and iudgement, and hope in thy God alwayes.

7   Chanaan in his hand a deceitful balance, he hath loued calumnie.

8   And Ephraim sayd: But yet I am made rich, I haue found an idol to my self: al my labours shal not finde me the iniquitie, which I haue sinned.

9   And I the

Lord thy God out of the Land of Ægypt, I wil yet make thee sitte in tabernacles, as in the dayes of festiuitie.

10   And I haue spoken vpon the prophets, and I haue multiplied vision, and in the hand of the prophets I haue bene resembled.

11   If an idol in Galaad, then in vaine were they in Galgal immolating with oxen: for their altars also as heapes vpon the furrowes of the filde.

12    ^noteIacob fled into the countrie of Syria, and Israel serued for a wife, and for a wife he kept her.

13   But by a prophete our Lord brought Israel out of Ægypt: and by a prophete he was preserued.

14   Ephraim hath prouoked me to wrath in his bitternes, and his bloud shal come vpon him, and his reproch his Lord wil restore to him. Chap. XIII. ^note For their obstinacie in idolatrie, 7. greatest plagues are threatned: 10. from which none shal be able to deliuer them. 14. But at last Christ coming wil redeme al by his death.

1   Ephraim ^note speaking, horrour inuaded Israel: and he sinned ^note in Baal, and died.

2   And now they haue added to sinne: and they haue made to themselues ^note a molten of their siluer as it were the similitude of idols, the whole is the worke of craftesmen: to these they say: Immolate men adoring calues.

3   Therfore they shal be as a morning cloude, and as a morning dew passing away, as dust caught with a whirlewind out of the floore, and as smoke out of the chimnie.

4   But I the Lord thy God out of the Land of Ægypt: and God beside me thou shalt not know, and there is no Sauiour beside me.

5   I knew thee in the desert, in the land of wildernes.

6   According to their pustures they were filled, and were made ful: they haue lifted vp their hart, and haue forgotten me.

7   And I wil be vnto them as a lionesse, as a leopard in the way of the Assyrians.

8   I wil meete them as a beare her yong being violently taken away, and I wil breake in sunder the inner partes of their liuer: and wil consume them there as a lion, the beast of the filde shal teare them.

9    ^notePerdition is thine ô Israel: ^note onlie in me thy helpe.

10   Where is thy king? Now especially let him saue thee in al thy cities: & thy iudges, of whom thou saydst: Geue me kinges, and princes.

11   I wil geue thee a king in my furie, and wil take him away in mine indignation.

12   The iniquitie of Ephraim is bound together, his sinne is hidden.

13   The sorowes of a woman in trauel shal come to him, he a

sonne not wise: for now he shal not stand the contraction of the children.

14    ^noteOut of the hand of death I wil deliuer them, from death I wil redeme them: I wil be thy death ô death, thy bitte wil be ô hel, consolation is hidden from mine eyes.

15   Because he shal diuide betwen bretheren: our Lord wil bring a burning winde rising from the desert: and it shal drie vp his vaines, and shal make his fountaine desolate, and he shal spoyle the treasure of euerie vessel that is to be desired. Chap. XIIII. ^note The prophet forewarning the people of their future afflictions, 2. exhorteth them to repentance, and confession of their sinnes: 5. foreshewing that God wil geue much grace to the penitent. 10. Al which mysteries only the godlie wise shal vnderstand.

1   Let Samaria ^note perish, because she hath stirred vp her God to bitternes: let them perish by the sword, let their litle ones be dashed, and let the wemen with child be cut in sunder.

2   Conuert ô Israel to our Lord thy God: because thou art fallen in thine iniquitie.

3   Take wordes with you, and conuert to our Lord, and say to him: Take away al iniquitie, and receiue good: and we wil render the calues of our lippes.

4   Assur shal not saue vs, we wil not mount vpon horse: neither wil we say any more: Our goddes the worke of our handes: because thou wilt haue mercie on that pupil, which is in thee.

5   I ^note wil heale their confractions, I wil loue them voluntarily: because my furie is auerted from them.

6   I wil be as dew, Israel shal spring as the lillie, and his roote shal breake forth as that of Libanus.

7   His boughes shal goe, and his glorie shal be as the oliuetree: and his smel as of Libanus.

8   They shal be conuerted that sitte vnder his shadow: they shal liue with wheate, and they shal spring as a vine: his memorial as the wine of Libanus.

9   Ephraim what haue I to doe any more with idols? I wil heare, and I wil direct him as a verdant firretree: out of me thy fruit is found.

10    ^noteWho is wise, and shal vnderstand these thinges? of vnderstanding, and shal know these thinges? because the wayes of our Lord be right, and the iust shal walke in them: but preuaricatours shal fal in them.

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