13 Ephraim, as I saw, is as a tree [a]in Tyre planted in a cottage: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.

14 O Lord, give them: what wilt thou give them? give them a [b]barren womb and dry breasts.

15 All their wickedness is in [c]Gilgal: for there do I hate them: for the wickedness of their inventions, I will cast them out of mine House: I will love them no more: all their princes are rebels.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:13 As they kept tender plants in their houses in Tyre to preserve them from the cold air of the sea, so was Ephraim at the first unto me, but now I will give him to the slaughter.
  2. Hosea 9:14 The Prophet seeing the great plagues of God toward Ephraim, prayeth to God to make them barren, rather than that this great slaughter should come upon their children.
  3. Hosea 9:15 The chief cause of their destruction is that they commit idolatry, and corrupt my Religion in Gilgal.

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