Jubilee2000 - Hosea - 7

7:1  When I was healing Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they worked deceit; and the thief comes in, [and] the troop of robbers spoils without.

7:2  And they do not consider in their hearts [that] I remember all their wickedness; now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.

7:3  They make the king glad with their wickedness and the princes with their lies.

7:4  They [are] all adulterers as an oven heated by the baker [who] shall cease from waking after he has kneaded the dough until it is leavened.

7:5  In the day of our king the princes have made [him] sick with [a] wineskin; he stretched out his hand with the scorners.

7:6  For they have made ready their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; their baker sleeps all night; in the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

7:7  They are all hot as an oven and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen; [there is] no one among them that calls unto me.

7:8  Ephraim, he has mixed himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

7:9  Strangers have devoured his strength, and he does not know [it]; yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he does not understand.

7:10  And the pride of Israel shall testify to his face, and they have not returned to the LORD their God, nor have they sought him with all this.

7:11  Ephraim also was like a deceived dove, without understanding; they shall call to Egypt, they shall go to Assyria.

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 according to what has been heard in their congregations.

7:13  Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction upon them! because they have rebelled against me; [though] I have ransomed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

7:14  And they have not cried unto me with their heart when they howled upon their beds; they congregated themselves for the wheat and the wine, [and] they rebelled against me.

7:15  Though I have bound [and] strengthened their arms, yet they imagine evil against me.

7:16  They returned, [but] not to the most High; they were like a deceitful bow; their princes fell by the sword for the arrogance of their tongue; this [shall be] their derision in the land of Egypt.: