Scriptures

New King James Version (NKJV)

Hosea 13
⁷ "So I will be to them like a lion; Like a leopard by the road I will lurk;
⁸ I will meet them like a bear deprived of her cubs; I will tear open their rib cage, And there I will devour them like a lion. The wild beast shall tear them.
⁹ "O Israel, you are destroyed, is from Me.
¹⁰ I will be your King; Where is any other, That he may save you in all your cities? And your judges to whom you said, ’Give me a king and princes’?
¹¹ I gave you a king in My anger, And took him away in My wrath.
¹² "The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; His sin is stored up.
¹³ The sorrows of a woman in childbirth shall come upon him. He is an unwise son, For he should not stay long where children are born.
¹⁴ "I will ransom them from the power of the grave; Pity is hidden from My eyes.
¹⁵ Though he is fruitful among his brethren, An east wind shall come; The wind of the Lord shall come up from the wilderness. Then his spring shall become dry, And his fountain shall be dried up. He shall plunder the treasury of every desirable prize.
¹⁶ Samaria is held guilty, For she has rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword, Their infants shall be dashed in pieces, And their women with child ripped open.
Hosea 14
¹ O Israel, return to the Lord your God, For you have stumbled because of your iniquity;