Hosea Chapter 7 Back Next{7:1} When I would heal
Israel, then the iniquity of
Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside.
{7:2} They don't consider in their
hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.
{7:3} They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
{7:4} They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the
dough, until it is
leavened.
{7:5} On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.
{7:6} For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming
fire.
{7:7} They are all hot as an oven, and devour their
judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.
{7:8} Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.
{7:9} Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn't realize it. Indeed, gray
hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn't realize it.
{7:10} The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven't returned to Yahweh their God, nor sought him, for all this.
{7:11} "Ephraim is like an easily deceived
dove, without understanding. They call to
Egypt. They go to
Assyria.
{7:12} When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the
birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their
congregation has heard.
{7:13} Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
{7:14} They haven't cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for
grain and new wine. They turn away from me.
{7:15} Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet they plot evil against me.
{7:16} They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty
bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.
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