The arrogance of Israel testifies against it; Israel and Ephraim will be overthrown because of their iniquity. Even Judah will be brought down with them.

The arrogance of Israel testifies against him, yet they refuse to return to the Lord their God! In spite of all this they refuse to seek him!

They feed on the sin offerings of my people; their appetites long for their iniquity!

I will be like a moth to Ephraim, like wood rot to the house of Judah.

The inhabitants of Samaria will lament over the calf idol of Beth Aven. Its people will mourn over it; its idolatrous priests will wail over it, because its splendor will be taken from them into exile.

whenever I want to heal Israel, the sin of Ephraim is revealed, and the evil deeds of Samaria are exposed. For they do what is wrong; thieves break into houses, and gangs rob people out in the streets.

The company of priests is like a gang of robbers, lying in ambush to pounce on a victim. They commit murder on the road to Shechem; they have done heinous crimes!

Old and new wine take away the understanding of my people.

So Hosea married Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim. Then she conceived and gave birth to a son for him.

A whirlwind has wrapped them in its wings; they will be brought to shame because of their idolatrous worship.

I have seen a disgusting thing in the temple of Israel: there Ephraim practices temple prostitution and Judah defiles itself.

When Israel was a young man, I loved him like a son, and I summoned my son out of Egypt.

Soon I will expose her lewd nakedness in front of her lovers, and no one will be able to rescue her from me!

The roar of battle will rise against your people; all your fortresses will be devastated, just as Shalman devastated Beth Arbel on the day of battle, when mothers were dashed to the ground with their children.

Therefore the land will mourn, and all its inhabitants will perish. The wild animals, the birds of the sky, and even the fish in the sea will perish.

O Israel, you have sinned since the time of Gibeah, and there you have remained. Did not war overtake the evildoers in Gibeah?

Samaria and its king will be carried off like a twig on the surface of the waters.

His young shoots will grow; his splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.

For I will remove the names of the Baal idols from your lips, so that you will never again utter their names!”

From there I will give back her vineyards to her, and turn the “Valley of Trouble” into an “Opportunity for Hope.” There she will sing as she did when she was young, when she came up from the land of Egypt.