Hosea 7 NKJV ISV Parallel

◄ 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.

1"When I was healing Israel, Ephraim's sin was uncovered, along with Samaria's wickedness. While they craft lying schemes, the thief invades, and the gang of thieves plunders 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.

2It never occurs to them that I remember all their sin. Now their actions have caught up with them, and they have my attention.

3They make a king glad with their wickedness, And princes with their lies.

3They please the king with their evil, and the princes with their dishonesty.

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 are adulterers— they burn like an oven prepared by the baker, who has ceased stoking it until the dough is leavened.

5In the day of our king Princes have made him sick, inflamed with wine; He stretched out his hand with scoffers.

5"On the king's festival day the princes got drunk from wine, so the king joined the mockers.

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 have stirred up themselves like an oven as they lie in ambush. Their baker sleeps through the night; in the morning, the oven will be blazing like a fire.

7They are all hot, like an oven, And have devoured their judges; All their kings have fallen. None among them calls upon Me.

7They all burn like an oven; they have consumed their judges; all their kings have fallen— not even one of them calls on me.

8“Ephraim has mixed himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake unturned.

8"Ephraim compromises with the nations; he's a half-baked cake.

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 have consumed his strength, and he hasn't noticed. Furthermore, his head is sprinkled with gray hair, but he doesn't realize it.

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 him; but they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him in all of this.

11“Ephraim also is like a silly dove, without sense— They call to Egypt, They go to Assyria.

11"Ephraim is also like a silly dove, lacking sense: They call out to Egypt, and turn toward 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.

12When they go, I'll cast my net over them. I'll bring them down, as one shoots birds in the sky. I'll chasten them, as the assembly has already heard.

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— because they have run away from me. Ruin to them— because they have sinned against me. Even though I redeemed them, they spread 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 will not cry to me from their heart— instead, they wail on their beds. They gather together to eat and drink, turning away from me.

15Though I disciplined and strengthened their arms, Yet they devise evil against Me;

15"Though I have taught them and strengthened their arms, nevertheless 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 return—but not to the Most High. They are like a defective weapon. Their princes will fall by the sword because of their raging tongue, and they will be a laughingstock in the land of Egypt."

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