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title="Hosea 6">◄</a> Hosea 7 <a href="../hosea/8.htm" title="Hosea 8">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/hosea/7.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">when I would heal Israel,</span><br /><span class="indent">the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the evil deeds of Samaria,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for they deal falsely;</span><br /><span class="indent">the thief breaks in,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the bandits raid outside.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But they do not consider</span><br /><span class="indent">that I remember all their evil.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Now their deeds surround them;</span><br /><span class="indent">they are before my face.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">By their evil they make the king glad,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the princes by their treachery.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They are all adulterers;</span><br /><span class="indent">they are like a heated oven</span><br /><span class="ln-group">whose baker ceases to stir the fire,</span><br /><span class="indent">from the kneading of the dough</span><br /><span class="indent">until it is leavened.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">On the day of our king, the princes</span><br /><span class="indent">became sick with the heat of wine;</span><br /><span class="indent">he stretched out his hand with mockers.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For with hearts like an oven they approach their intrigue;</span><br /><span class="indent">all night their anger smolders;</span><br /><span class="indent">in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">All of them are hot as an oven,</span><br /><span class="indent">and they devour their rulers.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">All their kings have fallen,</span><br /><span class="indent">and none of them calls upon me.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples;</span><br /><span class="indent">Ephraim is a cake not turned.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Strangers devour his strength,</span><br /><span class="indent">and he knows it not;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">gray hairs are sprinkled upon him,</span><br /><span class="indent">and he knows it not.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The pride of Israel testifies to his face;<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or in his presence">a</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">yet they do not return to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> their God,</span><br /><span class="indent">nor seek him, for all this.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Ephraim is like a dove,</span><br /><span class="indent">silly and without sense,</span><br /><span class="indent">calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">As they go, I will spread over them my net;</span><br /><span class="indent">I will bring them down like birds of the heavens;</span><br /><span class="indent">I will discipline them according to the report made to their congregation.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Woe to them, for they have strayed from me!</span><br /><span class="indent">Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me!</span><br /><span class="ln-group">I would redeem them,</span><br /><span class="indent">but they speak lies against me.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They do not cry to me from the heart,</span><br /><span class="indent">but they wail upon their beds;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for grain and wine they gash themselves;</span><br /><span class="indent">they rebel against me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Although I trained and strengthened their arms,</span><br /><span class="indent">yet they devise evil against me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They return, but not upward;<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or to the Most High">b</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">they are like a treacherous bow;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">their princes shall fall by the sword</span><br /><span class="indent">because of the insolence of their tongue.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> Or <i>in his presence</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> Or <i>to the Most High</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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