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The Prophet Hosea

⭑ King James Version 1769 including Apocrypha ⭑

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- Chapter 7 -

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When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.(a) (b)
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And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.(c)
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They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
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They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.(d) (e)
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In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.(f)
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For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.(g)
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They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
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Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
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Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.(h)
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And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him for all this.
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Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
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When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.
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Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.(i)
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And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
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Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.(j)
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They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

Footnotes

(a)7:1 wickedness: Heb. evils
(b)7:1 spoileth: Heb. strippeth
(c)7:2 consider…: Heb. say not to
(d)7:4 who…: or, the raiser will cease
(e)7:4 raising: or, waking
(f)7:5 bottles…: or, heat through wine
(g)7:6 made…: or, applied
(h)7:9 here…: Heb. sprinkled
(i)7:13 destruction: Heb. spoil
(j)7:15 have…: or, chastened
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