AB - Hosea - 7

7:1  When I have healed Israel, then shall the iniquity of Ephraim be revealed, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they have wrought falsehood. And a thief shall come in to him, even a robber spoiling in his way;

7:2  that they may concert together as men singing in their heart. I remember all their wickedness; now have their own counsels compassed them about; they came before My face.

7:3  They gladdened kings with their wickedness, and princes with their lies.

7:4  They are all adulterers, as an oven glowing with flame for hot baking, on account of the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.

7:5  In the days of our kings, the princes began to be inflamed with wine: he stretched out his hand with pestilent fellows.

7:6  Wherefore their hearts are inflamed as an oven, while they rage all the night. Ephraim is satisfied with sleep; the morning has come; he is burnt up as a flame of fire.

7:7  They are all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges. All their kings are fallen; there was not one among them that called on Me.

7:8  Ephraim is mixed among his people; Ephraim became a cake not turned.

7:9  Strangers devoured his strength, and he knew it not; and gray hairs came upon him, and he knew it not.

7:10  And the pride of Israel shall be brought down before his face: yet they have not returned to the Lord their God, neither have they diligently sought Him for all this.

7:11  And Ephraim was as a silly dove, not having a heart: he called to Egypt, and they went to the Assyrians.

7:12  Whenever they shall go, I will cast My net upon them; I will bring them down as the birds of the sky, I will chasten them with the rumor of their coming affliction.

7:13  Woe to them! For they have started aside from Me: they are cowards; for they have sinned against Me: yet I redeemed them, but they spoke falsehoods against Me.

7:14  And their hearts did not cry to Me, but they howled on their beds: they pined for oil and wine.

7:15  They were instructed by Me, and I strengthened their arms; and they devised evils against Me.

7:16  They turned aside to that which is not, they became as a bent bow. Their princes shall fall by the sword, by reason of the unbridled state of their tongue. This is their setting at nought in the land of Egypt.