Chapter 11

The Kingdom of Israel is further admonished, and threatened, ℣.10 of which tribes many shall believe in Christ.

1. 1

   As the morning passed, hath the king of Israel passed away. Because Israel was a child, and I loved him: & out of Ægypt I called my son.

2. 2

   They called them, so they departed from their face: they immolated to Baalim, and sacrificed to idols.

3. 3

   And I as it were the nurse of Ephraim, carried them in mine arms: and they knew not that I cured them.

4. 4

   In the cords of Adam I will draw them, in the bands of charity: and I will be to them as lifting up the yoke upon their cheeks: and I declined to him that he might eat.

5. 5

   He shall not return into the Land of Ægypt, and Assur he his king: because they would not convert.

6. 6

   The sword hath begun in his cities, and it shall consume his elect, and shall eat their heads.

7. 7

   And my people shall hang upon my return: but a yoke shall be put upon them together, which shall not be taken away.

8. 8

   How shall I give thee Ephraim, protect thee Israel? How shall I give thee as Adama, lay thee as Seboim? My heart is turned within, my repentance is disturbed together.

9. 9

   I will not do the fury of my wrath: I will not return to destroy Ephraim: because I am God, and not man: in the midst of thee the Holy one, and I will not enter into the city.

10. 10

    They shall walk after our Lord, as a lion will he roar: because he will roar, and the children of the sea shall fear.

11. 11

    And they shall fly away as a bird out of Ægypt, and as a dove out of the Land of the Assyrians: and I will place them in their houses, saith our Lord.

12. 12

    Ephraim hath compassed me in denying, and the house of Israel in deceit: but Judas a witness is descended with God, and with the saints, faithful.