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 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.
² But they do not consider
that I remember all their evil.
Now their deeds surround them;
they are before my face.
³ By their evil they make the king glad,
and the princes by their treachery.
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 with hearts like an oven they approach their 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.
⁹ Strangers devour his strength,
and he knows it not;
gray hairs are sprinkled upon him,
and he knows it not.
¹⁰ The pride of Israel testifies to his face;^[a]
yet they do not return to the Lordtheir 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 heavens;
I will discipline them according to the report made to their congregation.
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 return, but not upward;^[b]
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.

Footnotes:

1. Hosea 7:10 Or in his presence
2. Hosea 7:16 Or to the Most High

Cross references:

1. Hosea 7:1 : [ch. 6:4]
2. Hosea 7:1 : [Jer. 23:13]
3. Hosea 7:1 : [ch. 4:2]
4. Hosea 7:2 : [ch. 5:3]
5. Hosea 7:2 : Ps. 9:16; Prov. 5:22
6. Hosea 7:2 : Ps. 90:8
7. Hosea 7:3 : ver. 5; [Rom. 1:32]
8. Hosea 7:3 : ver. 5; [Rom. 1:32]
9. Hosea 7:4 : See ch. 6:10
10. Hosea 7:5 : ver. 3
11. Hosea 7:6 : ch. 6:9
12. Hosea 7:7 : ch. 8:4
13. Hosea 7:7 : 2 Kgs. 15:10, 14, 25, 30
14. Hosea 7:8 : Ps. 106:35
15. Hosea 7:9 : [ch. 8:7]
16. Hosea 7:9 : Isa. 42:25
17. Hosea 7:9 : Isa. 42:25
18. Hosea 7:10 : ch. 5:5
19. Hosea 7:10 : Isa. 9:13
20. Hosea 7:11 : ch. 4:11
21. Hosea 7:11 : [ch. 12:1; 2 Kgs. 17:4]
22. Hosea 7:11 : See ch. 5:13
23. Hosea 7:12 : See Ezek. 12:13
24. Hosea 7:12 : ch. 10:10
25. Hosea 7:12 : See Lev. 26:14-39; Deut. 28:15-68
26. Hosea 7:13 : ch. 9:12
27. Hosea 7:13 : ch. 13:14
28. Hosea 7:13 : [ch. 11:12; 12:1; Mic. 6:12]
29. Hosea 7:14 : Ps. 78:36, 37
30. Hosea 7:14 : [Amos 6:4, 5]
31. Hosea 7:15 : [ch. 11:3]
32. Hosea 7:16 : [ch. 6:1]
33. Hosea 7:16 : Ps. 78:57
34. Hosea 7:16 : Ps. 73:9
35. Hosea 7:16 : ch. 9:3