Hosea 7
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1“When I would have healed Israel, Then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, And the wickedness of Samaria. For they have committed fraud; A thief comes in; A band of robbers takes spoil outside.1when I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim and the crimes of Samaria will be exposed. For they practice fraud; a thief breaks in; a raiding party pillages outside.
2They do not consider in their hearts That I remember all their wickedness; Now their own deeds have surrounded them; They are before My face.2But they never consider that I remember all their evil. Now their actions are all around them; they are right in front of my face.
3They make a king glad with their wickedness, And princes with their lies.3They please the king with their evil, the princes with their lies.
4“They are all adulterers. Like an oven heated by a baker— He ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough, Until it is leavened.4All of them commit adultery; they are like an oven heated by a baker who stops stirring the fire from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
5In the day of our king Princes have made him sick, inflamed with wine; He stretched out his hand with scoffers.5On the day of our king, the princes are sick with the heat of wine--there is a conspiracy with traitors.
6They prepare their heart like an oven, While they lie in wait; Their baker sleeps all night; In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.6For they--their hearts like an oven--draw him into their oven. Their anger smolders all night; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
7They are all hot, like an oven, And have devoured their judges; All their kings have fallen. None among them calls upon Me.7All of them are as hot as an oven, and they consume their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls on me.
8“Ephraim has mixed himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake unturned.8Ephraim has allowed himself to get mixed up with the nations. Ephraim is unturned bread baked on a griddle.
9Aliens have devoured his strength, But he does not know it; Yes, gray hairs are here and there on him, Yet he does not know it.9Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not notice.
10And the pride of Israel testifies to his face, But they do not return to the LORD their God, Nor seek Him for all this.10Israel's arrogance testifies against them, yet they do not return to the LORD their God, and for all this, they do not seek him.
11“Ephraim also is like a silly dove, without sense— They call to Egypt, They go to Assyria.11So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove; they call to Egypt, and they go to Assyria.
12Wherever they go, I will spread My net on them; I will bring them down like birds of the air; I will chastise them According to what their congregation has heard.12As they are going, I will spread my net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the sky. I will discipline them in accordance with the news that reaches their assembly.
13“Woe to them, for they have fled from Me! Destruction to them, Because they have transgressed against Me! Though I redeemed them, Yet they have spoken lies against Me.13Woe to them, for they fled from me; destruction to them, for they rebelled against me! Though I want to redeem them, they speak lies against me.
14They did not cry out to Me with their heart When they wailed upon their beds. “They assemble together for grain and new wine, They rebel against Me;14They do not cry to me from their hearts; rather, they wail on their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine; they turn away from me.
15Though I disciplined and strengthened their arms, Yet they devise evil against Me;15I trained and strengthened their arms, but they plot evil against me.
16They return, but not to the Most High; They are like a treacherous bow. Their princes shall fall by the sword For the cursings of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.16They turn, but not to what is above; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because of their insolent tongue. They will be ridiculed for this in the land of Egypt.
The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.The Christian Standard Bible. Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission.
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