| 7 | Hosea | ||
| 1 | when I would heal Israel, the corruption of Ephraim is revealed, and the wicked deeds of Samaria; for they deal falsely, the thief breaks in, and the bandits raid without. | ||
| 2 | But they do not consider that I remember all their evil works. Now their deeds encompass them, they are before my face. | ||
| 3 | By their wickedness they make the king glad, and the princes by their treachery. | Conspiracy in the palace. Hs.7.3-7 | |
| 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 like an oven their hearts burn with 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. | Israel & the nations. Hs.7.8-16 | |
| 9 | Aliens devour his strength, and he knows it not; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, and he knows it not. | ||
| 10 | The pride of Israel witnesses against him; yet they do not return to Yahweh 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 air; I will chastise them for their wicked deeds. | ||
| 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 turn to Baal; 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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