HO-7:1 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.

HO-7:2 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.

HO-7:3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the

princes with their lies.

HO-7:4 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.

HO-7:5 In the day of our king the princes have made [him] sick

with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

HO-7:6 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.

HO-7:7 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.

HO-7:8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim

is a cake not turned.

HO-7:9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth [it]

not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth

not.

HO-7:10 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.

HO-7:11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they

call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

HO-7:12 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.

HO-7:13 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.

HO-7:14 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.

HO-7:15 Though I have bound [and] strengthened their arms, yet

do they imagine mischief against me.

HO-7:16 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. 

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