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Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood The other two, the one on this side of the bank of the Time of river, and the other on that side of the bank of the the End river. And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long 5 shall it be to the end of these wonders?

And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.

And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?

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And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried ; but the wicked shall do wickedly and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall under- 20 stand. And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and 25 thirty days. But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.

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HE word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

5 The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for

the land hath committed great whoredom, departing

from the LORD.

So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son.

And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will 15 cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel. And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.

And she conceived again, and bare a daughter.

And God said unto him, Call her name Lo20 ruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away. But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by 25 horses, nor by horsemen.

Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she con- Restoraceived, and bare a son. tion of Then said God, Call his name Lo-ammi: for ye Judah & are not my people, and I will not be your God. Yet Israel the number of the children of Israel shall be as the 5 sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God. Then shall the children of 10 Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

* Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your 15 sisters, Ru-hamah. Plead with your mother, plead : for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts; lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that 20 she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst. And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms. For their mother hath played the harlot : she that conceived them hath 25 done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and

my drink.

Unfaith- Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with fulness thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her con- paths. And she shall follow after her lovers, but she demned shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.

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For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, To which they prepared for Baal. Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness. And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of 15 her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand. I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts. And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards 20 that my lovers have given me and I will make them

a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them. And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after 25 her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.

Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she

shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in Jehovah the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. will BeAnd it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou troth His shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali. People For I will take away the names of Baalim out of 5 her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.

And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: 10 and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.

And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in 15 judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.

And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall 20 hear the earth; and the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.

And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my 25. people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.

* Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a

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