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      Hosea

      Hosea

      Chapter 7 of 14

      Hosea 7 (Listen)

      7:1   when I would heal Israel,
          the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed,
          and the evil deeds of Samaria,
        for they deal falsely;
          the thief breaks in,
          and the bandits raid outside.
      2   But they do not consider
          that I remember all their evil.
        Now their deeds surround them;
          they are before my face.
      3   By their evil they make the king glad,
          and the princes by their treachery.
      4   They are all adulterers;
          they are like a heated oven
        whose baker ceases to stir the fire,
          from the kneading of the dough
          until it is leavened.
      5   On the day of our king, the princes
          became sick with the heat of wine;
          he stretched out his hand with mockers.
      6   For with hearts like an oven they approach their intrigue;
          all night their anger smolders;
          in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
      7   All of them are hot as an oven,
          and they devour their rulers.
        All their kings have fallen,
          and none of them calls upon me.
      8   Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples;
          Ephraim is a cake not turned.
      9   Strangers devour his strength,
          and he knows it not;
        gray hairs are sprinkled upon him,
          and he knows it not.
      10   The pride of Israel testifies to his face;1
          yet they do not return to the LORD their God,
          nor seek him, for all this.
      11   Ephraim is like a dove,
          silly and without sense,
          calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.
      12   As they go, I will spread over them my net;
          I will bring them down like birds of the heavens;
          I will discipline them according to the report made to their congregation.
      13   Woe to them, for they have strayed from me!
          Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me!
        I would redeem them,
          but they speak lies against me.
      14   They do not cry to me from the heart,
          but they wail upon their beds;
        for grain and wine they gash themselves;
          they rebel against me.
      15   Although I trained and strengthened their arms,
          yet they devise evil against me.
      16   They return, but not upward;2
          they are like a treacherous bow;
        their princes shall fall by the sword
          because of the insolence of their tongue.
        This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

      Hosea - 7:10 Or in his presence
      Hosea - 7:16 Or to the Most High

      Hosea

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      Hosea

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