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# Hosea 11

Hosea 11 is chapter 11 of 14 in the Book of Hosea. Here are all 12 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> God proceeds in threatening Israel for their ingratitude: yet he will not utterly destroy them.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Hosea 11 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Just as the morning passes, so has the king of Israel passed by. For Israel was a child and I loved him; and out of Egypt I called my son.
2. They called them, and so they departed before their face. They offered victims to the Baals, and they sacrificed to graven images.
3. And I was like a foster father to Ephraim. I carried them in my arms. And they did not know that I healed them.
4. I will draw them with the cords of Adam, with the bands of love. And I will be to them like one who raises the yoke over their jaws. And I will reach down to him so that he may eat.
5. He will not return to the land of Egypt, but Assur himself will be the king over him, because they were not willing to be converted.
6. The sword has begun in his cities, and it will consume his elect and devour their heads.
7. And my people will long for my return. But a yoke will be imposed on them together, which will not be taken away.
8. How will I provide for you, Ephraim; how will I protect you, Israel? How will I provide for you as for Adam; will I set you like Zeboiim? My heart has changed within me; together with my regret, it has been stirred up.
9. I will not act on the fury of my wrath. I will not turn back to utterly destroy Ephraim. For I am God, and not man, the Divine in your midst, and I will not advance upon the city.
10. They will walk after the Lord; he will roar like a lion. For he himself will roar, and the sons of the sea will dread.
11. And they will fly like a bird out of Egypt, and like a dove from the land of the Assyrians. And I will arrange them in their own houses, says the Lord.
12. Ephraim has besieged me with denials, and the house of Israel with deceit. But Judah went down as a witness before God and the holy ones of faith.

## Hosea 11 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Sicut mane transiit, pertransiit rex Israël. Quia puer Israël, et dilexi eum; et ex Ægypto vocavi filium meum.
2. Vocaverunt eos, sic abierunt a facie eorum; Baalim immolabant, et simulacris sacrificabant.
3. Et ego quasi nutritius Ephraim: portabam eos in brachiis meis, et nescierunt quod curarem eos.
4. In funiculis Adam traham eos, in vinculis caritatis; et ero eis quasi exaltans jugum super maxillas eorum, et declinavi ad eum ut vesceretur.
5. Non revertetur in terram Ægypti, et Assur ipse rex ejus, quoniam noluerunt converti.
6. Cœpit gladius in civitatibus ejus, et consumet electos ejus, et comedet capita eorum.
7. Et populus meus pendebit ad reditum meum; jugum autem imponetur eis simul, quod non auferetur.
8. Quomodo dabo te, Ephraim? protegam te, Israël? Quomodo dabo te sicut Adama, ponam te ut Seboim? Conversum est in me cor meum, pariter conturbata est pœnitudo mea.
9. Non faciam furorem iræ meæ; non convertar ut disperdam Ephraim, quoniam Deus ego, et non homo; in medio tui sanctus, et non ingrediar civitatem.
10. Post Dominum ambulabunt; quasi leo rugiet, quia ipse rugiet, et formidabunt filii maris.
11. Et avolabunt quasi avis ex Ægypto, et quasi columba de terra Assyriorum: et collocabo eos in domibus suis, dicit Dominus.
12. Circumdedit me in negatione Ephraim, et in dolo domus Israël; Judas autem testis descendit cum Deo, et cum sanctis fidelis.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 219: I Believe in God ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 370: Man ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 441: The Only Son of God ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 530: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 219: I Believe in God ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 208: I Believe in God ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 1: “I called my son” … Viz., Israel. But as the calling of Israel out of Egypt, was a figure of the calling of Christ from thence; therefore this text is also applicable to Christ, as we learn from Matthew 2. 15.
- Verse 2: “They called” … Viz., Moses and Aaron called; but they went away after other gods and would not hear.
- Verse 8: Adama and Seboim were two cities in the neighborhood of Sodom: and underwent the like destruction.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Fri, Jun 4, 2027 (computed): Most Sacred Heart of Jesus — First Reading, Hosea 11:1, 3-4, 8c-9
- Thu, Jul 13, 2028 (computed): Thursday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Hosea 11:1-4, 8e-9

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).