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cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../hosea/6.htm" 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">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch35007" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn35007" class="cn"></h1> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf">When I would have restored the fortunes of my people,</p> <p class="sl1"><span id="v35007001" class="ver">1</span>when I would have healed Israel,</p> <p class="sl">The guilt of Ephraim was revealed,</p> <p class="sl1">the wickedness of Samaria:</p> <p class="sl1">They practiced falsehood.</p> <p class="sl">Thieves break in,</p> <p class="sl1">bandits roam outside.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v35007002" class="ver">2</span>Yet they do not call to mind</p> <p class="sl1">that I remember all their wickedness.<a id="ren35007002-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en35007002-a">a</a></p> <p class="sl">Now their crimes surround them,</p> <p class="sl1">present to my sight.<a id="ren35007002-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en35007002-b">b</a></p> </div> <section> <h2 class="ah">Israel’s Domestic Politics<a id="rfn35007003-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn35007003-1">*</a></h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v35007003" class="ver">3</span>With their wickedness they make the king rejoice,</p> <p class="sl1">the princes too, with their treacherous deeds.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v35007004" class="ver">4</span>They are all adulterers,<a id="rfn35007004-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn35007004-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">like a blazing oven,</p> <p class="sl">Which the baker quits stoking,</p> <p class="sl1">after the dough’s kneading until its rising.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v35007005" class="ver">5</span>On the day of our king,</p> <p class="sl1">they made the princes sick with poisoned wine;</p> <p class="sl1">he extended his hand to the scoffers.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v35007006" class="ver">6</span>For they draw near in ambush</p> <p class="sl1">with their hearts like an oven.</p> <p class="sl">All the night their anger sleeps;</p> <p class="sl1">in the morning it flares like a blazing fire.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v35007007" class="ver">7</span>They are all heated like ovens,</p> <p class="sl1">and consume their rulers.</p> <p class="sl">All their kings have fallen;</p> <p class="sl1">none of them calls upon me.</p> </div> </section> <section> <h2 class="ah">Israel’s Foreign Politics</h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v35007008" class="ver">8</span>Ephraim is mixed with the nations,<a id="rfn35007008-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn35007008-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">Ephraim is an unturned cake.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v35007009" class="ver">9</span>Strangers have consumed his strength,</p> <p class="sl1">but he does not know it;<a id="ren35007009-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en35007009-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl">Gray hairs are strewn on his head,</p> <p class="sl1">but he takes no notice of it.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v35007010" class="ver">10</span>The arrogance of Israel bears witness against him;</p> <p class="sl1">yet they do not return to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, their God,</p> <p class="sl1">nor seek him, despite all this.<a id="ren35007010-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en35007010-d">d</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v35007011" class="ver">11</span>Ephraim is like a dove,</p> <p class="sl1">silly and senseless;</p> <p class="sl">They call upon Egypt,</p> <p class="sl1">they go to Assyria.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v35007012" class="ver">12</span>When they go I will spread my net around them,</p> <p class="sl1">like birds in the air I will bring them down.<a id="ren35007012-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en35007012-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl1">I will chastise them when I hear of their assembly.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v35007013" class="ver">13</span>Woe to them, for they have strayed from me!</p> <p class="sl1">Ruin to them, for they have rebelled against me!</p> <p class="sl">Though I wished to redeem them,</p> <p class="sl1">they spoke lies against me.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v35007014" class="ver">14</span>They have not cried to me from their hearts</p> <p class="sl1">when they wailed upon their beds;</p> <p class="sl">For wheat and wine they lacerated themselves;<a id="rfn35007014-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn35007014-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">they rebelled against me.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v35007015" class="ver">15</span>Though I trained and strengthened their arms,</p> <p class="sl1">yet they devised evil against me.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v35007016" class="ver">16</span>They have again become useless,</p> <p class="sl1">they have been like a treacherous bow.<a id="ren35007016-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en35007016-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl">Their princes shall fall by the sword</p> <p class="sl1">because of the insolence of their tongues;</p> <p class="sl1">thus they shall be mocked in the land of Egypt.</p> </div> </section> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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