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   Bible Reading for July 04   
      
   Hosea 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.   
      
   Hosea 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 Baal-peor, 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.   
      
   Hosea 10   
   [1] Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according   
   to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the   
   goodness of his land they have made goodly images. [2] Their heart is divided;   
   now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall   
   spoil their images. [3] For now they shall say, We have no king, because we   
   feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?   
   [4] They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus   
   judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field. [5] The   
   inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for the   
   people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on   
   it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.   
   [6] It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim   
   shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel. [7] As   
   for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water. [8] The high   
   places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the   
   thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains,   
   Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us. [9] O Israel, thou hast sinned from   
   the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the   
   children of iniquity did not overtake them. [10] It is in my desire that I   
   should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they   
   shall bind themselves in their two furrows. [11] And Ephraim is as an heifer   
   that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her   
   fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall   
   break his clods. [12] Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break   
   up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain   
   righteousness upon you.   
   [13] Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the   
   fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy   
   mighty men.   
   [14] Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses   
   shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the   
   mother was dashed in pieces upon her children. [15] So shall Bethel do unto   
   you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel   
   utterly be cut off.   
      
      
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