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title: "Hosea 13 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate · Bless"
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description: "The judgments of God upon Israel for their sins. Christ shall one day redeem them. Hosea 13 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate."
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# Hosea 13

Hosea 13 is chapter 13 of 14 in the Book of Hosea. Here are all 15 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The judgments of God upon Israel for their sins. Christ shall one day redeem them.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Hosea 13 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. While Ephraim was speaking, a horror entered Israel, and he offended by Baal, and he died.
2. And now they add that they will be sinning more. And they have made themselves an image cast from their silver, just like the image of idols; but the whole thing has been made by craftsmen. These say to them, “Sacrifice men, you who adore calves.”
3. For this reason, they will be like the morning clouds, and like the morning dew that passes away, just like the dust that is driven by a whirlwind away from the threshing floor, and like the smoke from a chimney.
4. But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt, and you will not know God apart from me, and there is no Savior except me.
5. I knew you in the desert, in the land of solitude.
6. According to their pastures, they have been filled up and have been satisfied. And they have lifted up their heart, and they have forgotten me.
7. And I will be to them like a lioness, like a leopard in the way of the Assyrians.
8. I will run to meet them like a bear that has been robbed of her young, and I will split open the middle of their liver. And I will devour them there like a lion; the beast of the field will tear them apart.
9. Perdition is yours, Israel. Your help is only in me.
10. Where is your king? Now, especially, let him save you in all your cities, and from your judges, about whom you said, “Give me kings and princes.”
11. I will give you a king in my wrath, and I will take him away in my indignation.
12. The iniquity of Ephraim has been bound; his sin has been engulfed.
13. The pains of giving birth will reach him. He is an unwise son. For now he will not remain firm during the contrition of his sons.
14. I will free them from the hand of death; from death I will redeem them. Death, I will be your death. Hell, I will be your deadly wound. Consolation is hidden from my eyes.
15. For he will make a division among brothers. The Lord will bring a burning wind, rising up from the desert, and it will dry up his streams, and it will make his fountain desolate, and he will tear apart every collection of desirable useful things.

## Hosea 13 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Loquente Ephraim, horror invasit Israël; et deliquit in Baal, et mortuus est.
2. Et nunc addiderunt ad peccandum; feceruntque sibi conflatile de argento suo quasi similitudinem idolorum: factura artificum totum est: his ipsi dicunt: Immolate homines, vitulos adorantes.
3. Idcirco erunt quasi nubes matutina, et sicut ros matutinus præteriens; sicut pulvis turbine raptus ex area, et sicut fumus de fumario.
4. Ego autem Dominus Deus tuus, ex terra Ægypti; et Deum absque me nescies, et salvator non est præter me.
5. Ego cognovi te in deserto, in terra solitudinis.
6. Juxta pascua sua adimpleti sunt et saturati sunt; et levaverunt cor suum, et obliti sunt mei.
7. Et ego ero eis quasi leæna, sicut pardus in via Assyriorum.
8. Occurram eis quasi ursa raptis catulis, et dirumpam interiora jecoris eorum, et consumam eos ibi quasi leo: bestia agri scindet eos.
9. Perditio tua, Israël: tantummodo in me auxilium tuum.
10. Ubi est rex tuus? maxime nunc salvet te in omnibus urbibus tuis; et judices tui, de quibus dixisti: Da mihi regem et principes.
11. Dabo tibi regem in furore meo, et auferam in indignatione mea.
12. Colligata est iniquitas Ephraim; absconditum peccatum ejus.
13. Dolores parturientis venient ei: ipse filius non sapiens: nunc enim non stabit in contritione filiorum.
14. De manu mortis liberabo eos; de morte redimam eos. Ero mors tua, o mors! morsus tuus ero, inferne! consolatio abscondita est ab oculis meis.
15. Quia ipse inter fratres dividet: adducet urentem ventum Dominus de deserto ascendentem, et siccabit venas ejus, et desolabit fontem ejus: et ipse diripiet thesaurum omnis vasis desiderabilis.

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