Book of Hosea, Chapter 7
Chapter 7 of Hosea
the corruption of E′phraim is revealed,
and the wicked deeds of Samar′ia;
for they deal falsely,
the thief breaks in,
and the bandits raid without.
that I remember all their evil works.
Now their deeds encompass them,
they are before my face.
and the princes by their treachery.
they are like a heated oven,
whose baker ceases to stir the fire,
from the kneading of the dough
until it is leavened.
became sick with the heat of wine;
he stretched out his hand with mockers.
all night their anger smolders;
in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
and they devour their rulers.
All their kings have fallen;
and none of them calls upon me.
E′phraim is a cake not turned.
and he knows it not;
gray hairs are sprinkled upon him,
and he knows it not.
yet they do not return to the LORD their God,
nor seek him, for all this.
silly and without sense,
calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.
I will bring them down like birds of the air;
I will chastise them for their wicked deeds.[b]
Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me!
I would redeem them,
but they speak lies against me.
but they wail upon their beds;
for grain and wine they gash themselves,
they rebel against me.
yet they devise evil against me.
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
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