Os 7-9 (King James)

   ¹ When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without. ² And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face. ³ They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. ⁴ They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened. ⁵ In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. ⁶ For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. ⁷ They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
   ⁸ Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. ⁹ Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. ¹⁰ And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this. ¹¹ Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. ¹² When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard. ¹³ Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me. ¹⁴ And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me. ¹⁵ Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me. ¹⁶ They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

Osée 8

   ¹ Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. ² Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee. ³ Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. ⁴ They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. ⁵ Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency? ⁶ For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces. ⁷ For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
   ⁸ Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure. ⁹ For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. ¹⁰ Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes. ¹¹ Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin. ¹² I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing. ¹³ They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt. ¹⁴ For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

Osée 9

   ¹ Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor. ² The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. ³ They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria. ⁴ They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD. ⁵ What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD? ⁶ For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.
   ⁷ The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred. ⁸ The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God. ⁹ They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins. ¹⁰ I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
   ¹¹ As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception. ¹² Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them! ¹³ Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer. ¹⁴ Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. ¹⁵ All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters. ¹⁶ Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb. ¹⁷ My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

Os 7-9 (Vulgate)

   ¹ [Cum sanare vellem Israël,
revelata est iniquitas Ephraim,
et malitia Samariæ,
quia operati sunt mendacium ;
et fur ingressus est spolians,
latrunculus foris.
   ² Et ne forte dicant in cordibus suis,
omnem malitiam eorum me recordatum,
nunc circumdederunt eos adinventiones suæ :
coram facie mea factæ sunt.
   ³ In malitia sua lætificaverunt regem,
et in mendaciis suis principes.
   ⁴ Omnes adulterantes,
quasi clibanus succensus a coquente ;
quievit paululum civitas a commistione fermenti,
donec fermentaretur totum.
   ⁵ Dies regis nostri : cœperunt principes furere a vino ;
extendit manum suam cum illusoribus.
   ⁶ Quia applicuerunt quasi clibanum cor suum,
cum insidiaretur eis ;
tota nocte dormivit coquens eos :
mane ipse succensus quasi ignis flammæ.
   ⁷ Omnes calefacti sunt quasi clibanus,
et devoraverunt judices suos :
omnes reges eorum ceciderunt ;
non est qui clamet in eis ad me.
   ⁸ Ephraim in populis ipse commiscebatur ;
Ephraim factus est subcinericius panis, qui non reversatur.
   ⁹ Comederunt alieni robur ejus, et ipse nescivit ;
sed et cani effusi sunt in eo, et ipse ignoravit.
   ¹⁰ Et humiliabitur superbia Israël in facie ejus ;
nec reversi sunt ad Dominum Deum suum,
et non quæsierunt eum in omnibus his.
   ¹¹ Et factus est Ephraim quasi columba seducta non habens cor.
Ægyptum invocabant ; ad Assyrios abierunt.
   ¹² Et cum profecti fuerint,
expandam super eos rete meum :
quasi volucrem cæli detraham eos ;
cædam eos secundum auditionem cœtus eorum.
   ¹³ Væ eis, quoniam recesserunt a me !
vastabuntur, quia prævaricati sunt in me,
et ego redemi eos,
et ipsi locuti sunt contra me mendacia.
   ¹⁴ Et non clamaverunt ad me in corde suo,
sed ululabant in cubilibus suis :
super triticum et vinum ruminabant ;
recesserunt a me.
   ¹⁵ Et ego erudivi eos, et confortavi brachia eorum,
et in me cogitaverunt malitiam.
   ¹⁶ Reversi sunt ut essent absque jugo ;
facti sunt quasi arcus dolosus :
cadent in gladio principes eorum, a furore linguæ suæ.
Ista subsannatio eorum in terra Ægypti.]

Osée 8

   ¹ [In gutture tuo sit tuba
quasi aquila super domum Domini,
pro eo quod transgressi sunt fœdus meum,
et legem meam prævaricati sunt.
   ² Me invocabunt : Deus meus,
cognovimus te Israël.
   ³ Projecit Israël bonum :
inimicus persequetur eum.
   ⁴ Ipsi regnaverunt, et non ex me ;
principes exstiterunt, et non cognovi :
argentum suum et aurum suum fecerunt sibi idola,
ut interirent.
   ⁵ Projectus est vitulus tuus, Samaria ;
iratus est furor meus in eos.
Usquequo non poterunt emundari ?
   ⁶ Quia ex Israël et ipse est :
artifex fecit illum, et non est deus ;
quoniam in aranearum telas erit vitulus Samariæ.
   ⁷ Quia ventum seminabunt,
et turbinem metent :
culmus stans non est in eo ;
germen non faciet farinam :
quod etsi fecerit, alieni comedent eam.
   ⁸ Devoratus est Israël ;
nunc factus est in nationibus quasi vas immundum.
   ⁹ Quia ipsi ascenderunt ad Assur,
onager solitarius sibi ;
Ephraim munera dederunt amatoribus.
   ¹⁰ Sed et cum mercede conduxerint nationes,
nunc congregabo eos,
et quiescent paulisper ab onere regis et principum.
   ¹¹ Quia multiplicavit Ephraim altaria ad peccandum ;
factæ sunt ei aræ in delictum.
   ¹² Scribam ei multiplices leges meas,
quæ velut alienæ computatæ sunt.
   ¹³ Hostias offerent,
immolabunt carnes et comedent,
et Dominus non suscipiet eas :
nunc recordabitur iniquitatis eorum,
et visitabit peccata eorum :
ipsi in Ægyptum convertentur.
   ¹⁴ Et oblitus est Israël factoris sui,
et ædificavit delubra ;
et Judas multiplicavit urbes munitas ;
et mittam ignem in civitates ejus,
et devorabit ædes illius.]

Osée 9

   ¹ [Noli lætari, Israël ;
noli exsultare sicut populi :
quia fornicatus es a Deo tuo ;
dilexisti mercedem super omnes areas tritici.
   ² Area et torcular non pascet eos,
et vinum mentietur eis :
   ³ non habitabunt in terra Domini.
Reversus est Ephraim in Ægyptum,
et in Assyriis pollutum comedit.
   ⁴ Non libabunt Domino vinum,
et non placebunt ei.
Sacrificia eorum quasi panis lugentium ;
omnes qui comedent eum, contaminabuntur :
quia panis eorum animæ ipsorum :
non intrabit in domum Domini.
   ⁵ Quid facietis in die solemni,
in die festivitatis Domini ?
   ⁶ Ecce enim profecti sunt a vastitate :
Ægyptus congregabit eos ;
Memphis sepeliet eos :
desiderabile argentum eorum urtica hæreditabit,
lappa in tabernaculis eorum.
   ⁷ Venerunt dies visitationis,
venerunt dies retributionis.
Scitote, Israël,
stultum prophetam,
insanum virum spiritualem,
propter multitudinem iniquitatis tuæ,
et multitudinem amentiæ.
   ⁸ Speculator Ephraim cum Deo meo,
propheta laqueus ruinæ factus est super omnes vias ejus ;
insania in domo Dei ejus.
   ⁹ Profunde peccaverunt, sicut in diebus Gabaa.
Recordabitur iniquitatis eorum,
et visitabit peccata eorum.
   ¹⁰ Quasi uvas in deserto inveni Israël,
quasi prima poma ficulneæ in cacumine ejus vidi patres eorum :
ipsi autem intraverunt ad Beelphegor,
et abalienati sunt in confusionem,
et facti sunt abominabiles sicut ea quæ dilexerunt.
   ¹¹ Ephraim quasi avis avolavit ;
gloria eorum a partu, et ab utero, et a conceptu.
   ¹² Quod etsi enutrierint filios suos,
absque liberis eos faciam in hominibus ;
sed et væ eis cum recessero ab eis !
   ¹³ Ephraim, ut vidi, Tyrus erat fundata in pulchritudine ;
et Ephraim educet ad interfectorem filios suos.
   ¹⁴ Da eis, Domine. Quid dabis eis ?
da eis vulvam sine liberis, et ubera arentia.
   ¹⁵ Omnes nequitiæ eorum in Galgal,
quia ibi exosos habui eos.
Propter malitiam adinventionum eorum,
de domo mea ejiciam eos ;
non addam ut diligam eos :
omnes principes eorum recedentes.
   ¹⁶ Percussus est Ephraim ;
radix eorum exsiccata est :
fructum nequaquam facient,
quod etsi genuerint,
interficiam amantissima uteri eorum.
   ¹⁷ Abjiciet eos Deus meus, quia non audierunt eum,
et erunt vagi in nationibus.]