Hosea 7:5-16 ▼

5 A day of our king! Princes have defiled themselves [with] the poison of wine, || He has drawn out his hand with scorners.

6 For they have drawn near, || Their heart [is] as an oven || In their lying in wait—their baker sleeps all night, || Morning! He is burning as a flaming fire.

7 All of them are warm as an oven, || And they have devoured their judges, || All their kings have fallen, || There is none calling to Me among them.

8 Ephraim! He mixes himself among peoples, || Ephraim has been an unturned cake.

9 Strangers have devoured his power, || And he has not known, || Also old age has sprinkled [itself] on him, || And he has not known.

10 And the excellence of Israel has been humbled to his face, || And they have not turned back to their God YHWH, || Nor have they sought Him for all this.

11 And Ephraim is as a simple dove without heart, || Egypt they called on—[to] Asshur they have gone.

12 When they go I spread over them My net, || As the bird of the heavens I bring them down, || I discipline them as their congregation has heard.

13 Woe to them, for they wandered from Me, || Destruction to them, for they transgressed against Me, || And I ransom them, and they have spoken lies against Me,

14 And have not cried to Me with their heart, but howl on their beds; They assemble themselves for grain and new wine, || They turn aside against Me.

15 And I instructed—I strengthened their arms, || And concerning Me they think evil!

16 They turn back—not to the Most High, || They have been as a deceitful bow, || Their princes fall by sword, || From the insolence of their tongue, || This [is] their derision in the land of Egypt!”