Hosea 7 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 “I want to heal Israel, but its sins are too great. Samaria is filled with liars. Thieves are on the inside and bandits on the outside! 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. whenever I would heal Israel, the sins of Ephraim are exposed and the crimes of Samaria revealed. They practice deceit, thieves break into houses, bandits rob in the streets;
2 Its people don’t realize that I am watching them. Their sinful deeds are all around them, and I see them all. But they do not consider that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face. but they do not realize that I remember all their evil deeds. Their sins engulf them; they are always before me.
3 “The people entertain the king with their wickedness, and the princes laugh at their lies. By their evil they make the king glad, and the princes by their treachery. “They delight the king with their wickedness, the princes with their lies.
4 They are all adulterers, always aflame with lust. They are like an oven that is kept hot while the baker is kneading the dough. 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. They are all adulterers, burning like an oven whose fire the baker need not stir from the kneading of the dough till it rises.
5 On royal holidays, the princes get drunk with wine, carousing with those who mock them. On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers. On the day of the festival of our king the princes become inflamed with wine, and he joins hands with the mockers.
6 Their hearts are like an oven blazing with intrigue. Their plot smolders through the night, and in the morning it breaks out like a raging fire. For with hearts like an oven they approach their intrigue; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire. Their hearts are like an oven; they approach him with intrigue. Their passion smolders all night; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
7 Burning like an oven, they consume their leaders. They kill their kings one after another, and no one cries to me for help. 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. All of them are hot as an oven; they devour their rulers. All their kings fall, and none of them calls on me.
8 “The people of Israel mingle with godless foreigners, making themselves as worthless as a half-baked cake! Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned. “Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is a flat loaf not turned over.
9 Worshiping foreign gods has sapped their strength, but they don’t even know it. Their hair is gray, but they don’t realize they’re old and weak. Strangers devour his strength, and he knows it not; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, and he knows it not. Foreigners sap his strength, but he does not realize it. His hair is sprinkled with gray, but he does not notice.
10 Their arrogance testifies against them, yet they don’t return to the LORD their God or even try to find him. The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him, for all this. Israel’s arrogance testifies against him, but despite all this he does not return to the LORD his God or search for him.
11 “The people of Israel have become like silly, witless doves, first calling to Egypt, then flying to Assyria for help. Ephraim is like a dove, silly and without sense, calling to Egypt, going to Assyria. “Ephraim is like a dove, easily deceived and senseless— now calling to Egypt, now turning to Assyria.
12 But as they fly about, I will throw my net over them and bring them down like a bird from the sky. I will punish them for all the evil they do. 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. When they go, I will throw my net over them; I will pull them down like the birds in the sky. When I hear them flocking together, I will catch them.
13 “What sorrow awaits those who have deserted me! Let them die, for they have rebelled against me. I wanted to redeem them, but they have told lies about me. 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. Woe to them, because they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, because they have rebelled against me! I long to redeem them but they speak about me falsely.
14 They do not cry out to me with sincere hearts. Instead, they sit on their couches and wail. They cut themselves, begging foreign gods for grain and new wine, and they turn away from me. 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. They do not cry out to me from their hearts but wail on their beds. They slash themselves, appealing to their gods for grain and new wine, but they turn away from me.
15 I trained them and made them strong, yet now they plot evil against me. Although I trained and strengthened their arms, yet they devise evil against me. I trained them and strengthened their arms, but they plot evil against me.
16 They look everywhere except to the Most High. They are as useless as a crooked bow. Their leaders will be killed by their enemies because of their insolence toward me. Then the people of Egypt will laugh at them. 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. They do not turn to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because of their insolent words. For this they will be ridiculed in the land of Egypt.
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