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People cheat each other. They break into houses and steal. They rob people in the streets.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>They don't realize that I remember all the evil things they've done. Now their sins surround them. Their sins are in my presence.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>"They make kings happy with the wicked things they do. They make officials happy with the lies they tell.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>They all commit adultery. They are like a heated oven, an oven so hot that a baker doesn't have to fan its flames when he makes bread.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>On the day of the king's celebration, the officials become drunk from wine, and the king joins mockers.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>They become hot like an oven while they lie in ambush. All night long their anger smolders, but in the morning it burns like a raging fire.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They are all as hot as an oven. They consume their judges [like a fire]. All their kings die in battle, and none of them calls to me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>"Ephraim mixes with other nations. Ephraim, you are like a half-baked loaf of bread.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Foreigners are using up your strength, but you don't realize it. You have become a gray-haired, old man, but you don't realize it.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Israel, your arrogance testifies against you, but even after all this, you don't turn to the LORD your God or look to him for help.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Ephraim, you are like a silly, senseless dove. You call for Egypt and run to Assyria for help.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>When you go, I will spread my net over you. I will snatch you out of the air like a bird. I will punish you for all the evil things you have done.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>"How horrible it will be for these people. They have run away from me. They must be destroyed because they've rebelled against me. I want to reclaim them, but they tell lies about me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>They don't pray to me sincerely, even though they cry in their beds and make cuts on their bodies while praying for grain and new wine. They have turned against me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I trained them and made them strong. Yet, they plan evil against me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>They don't return to the Most High. They are like a defective bow. Their officials will die in battle because they curse. 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