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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