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何西阿書 8

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1 你用口吹角罷!敵人如來攻打耶和華的家;因為這民違背我的約,干犯我的律法。

2 他們必呼叫我說:我的啊,我們以色列認識你了。

3 以色列丟棄良善(或譯:福分);仇敵必追逼他。

4 他們立君王,卻不由我;他們立首領,我卻不認。他們用為自己製造偶像,以致被剪除。

5 撒瑪利亞啊,耶和華已經丟棄你的犢;我的怒氣向拜犢的人發作。他們到幾時方能無罪呢?

6 犢出於以色列,是匠人所造的,並不是撒瑪利亞犢必被打碎。

7 他們所種的是,所收的是暴;所種的不成禾稼,就是發苗也不結實;即便結實,外邦人必吃。

8 以色列吃;現今在列國中,好像人不喜悅的器皿。

9 他們投奔亞述,如同獨行的野驢;以法蓮賄買朋黨。

10 他們雖在列邦中賄買人,現在我卻要聚集懲罰他們;他們因君王和首領所加的重擔日漸衰微。

11 以法蓮增添祭壇取罪;因此,祭壇使他犯罪。

12 我為他了律萬條,他卻以為與他毫無關涉。

13 至於獻給我的祭物,他們自食其耶和華卻不悅納他們。現在必記念他們的孽,追討他們的罪惡;他們必歸回埃及

14 以色列忘記造他的主,建造宮殿猶大多造堅固城,我卻要降焚燒他的城邑,燒滅其中的宮殿

   

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Scriptural Confirmations #75

  
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75. 4.

In that day I will visit, and make an end of the kingdom of Israel (Hosea 1:4-5).

The days of visitation will come, the days of retribution will come, He will visit their sins (Hosea 9:7, 9).

They shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us (Hosea 10:8).

They shall be laid waste as in the day of battle (Hosea 10:14).

The controversy of Jehovah with Judah, to visit upon Jacob, according to his ways, according to his doings will He recompense him (Hosea 12:3).

The day of Jehovah is great and very terrible, who then shall sustain it (Joel 2:11; 3:4).

A day of battle and a day of tempest (Amos 1:14).

Then the powerful one shall not deliver his soul, and the strong of heart among the heroes shall flee away naked in that day (Amos 2:14, 16).

He will visit upon them all their iniquities, in that day (Amos 3:2, 14).

If they dig into hell, if they ascend to the heavens or in the depth of the sea, etc., thence will I draw them out (Amos 9:2-6).

Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah; to what end is the day of Jehovah for you? it is a day of darkness and not of light. Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness and not light? and thick darkness and no brightness in it? (Amos 5:18, 20.)

The end is come upon my people Israel. Wherefore the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day: there shall be many a dead body (Amos 8:2-3).

It is called the day of destruction, the day of straitness (Obadiah 12-14, 18, 18).

The day of Jehovah is near upon all the nations; as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy retribution shall return upon thy head. But upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness (Obadiah 14, 15, 17, 17).

  
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