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Hosea 7 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:1 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:2 - But they do not consider
that I remember all their evil.
Now their deeds surround them;
they are before my face.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:3 - By their evil they make the king glad,
and the princes by their treachery.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:5 - On the day of our king, the princes
became sick with the heat of wine;
he stretched out his hand with mockers.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:6 - For with hearts like an oven they approach their intrigue;
all night their anger smolders;
in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:7 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:8 - Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples;
Ephraim is a cake not turned.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:9 - Strangers devour his strength,
and he knows it not;
gray hairs are sprinkled upon him,
and he knows it not.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:10 - The pride of Israel testifies to his face;[fn]
yet they do not return to the LORD their God,
nor seek him, for all this.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:11 - Ephraim is like a dove,
silly and without sense,
calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:12 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:13 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:14 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:15 - Although I trained and strengthened their arms,
yet they devise evil against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:16 - They return, but not upward;[fn]
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.
ESV Footnotes
Or in his presence
Or to the Most High
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