Hosea

1 `Say ye to your brethren — Ammi, And to your sisters — Ruhamah. 2 Plead ye with your mother

1 A word of Jehovah that hath been unto Hosea, son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz,

1 `Hear this, O priests, and attend, O house of Israel, And, O house of the king, give ear, For

1 `Hear a word of Jehovah, sons of Israel, For a strife `is’ to Jehovah with inhabitants of the land,

1 And Jehovah saith unto me: `Again, go, love a woman, loved of a friend, and an adulteress, like the

1 `Come, and we turn back unto Jehovah, For He hath torn, and He doth heal us, He doth smite,

1 `An empty vine `is’ Israel, Fruit he maketh like to himself, According to the abundance of his fruit, He