Hosea - Chapter 7 | English Standard Version

  • 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; 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; 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.
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