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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Hosea 7 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/hosea/7.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/hosea/7-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Hosea 7</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" 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">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/hosea/7-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Ephraim’s Iniquity<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>As I healed to Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the evils of Shomeron: for they did falsehood, and the thief will come in, and the troop invaded without.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And they will not say to their heart, I remembered all their evil: now their doings surrounded them; they were before my face.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>By their evil they will gladden the king, and the chiefs by their falsehoods.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>All of them committing adultery, as an oven set on fire from baking; he will cease from raising from kneading the dough till its leavening.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The day of our king the chiefs began anger from wine; stretching forth his hand with mockers.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For they drew near their heart as a furnace in their lying in wait: all the night their baker slept; in the morning it burnt as the fire of flame.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They were all hot as a furnace, and they consumed their judges; all their kings fell: none among them calling to me.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Ephraim will mingle himself among my people; Ephraim was a cake not turned.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Strangers consumed his strength, and he knew not: also grayness of hair was sprinkled upon him, and he knew not.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the pride of Israel was humbled in his face: and they turned not back to Jehovah their God. And sought him not in all this.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Ephraim will be as an enticed dove, not a heart: they called Egypt, they went to Assur.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>When they shall go I will spread my net upon them; as birds of the heavens I will bring them down; I will correct them when hearing to their assembly.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Wo! to them, for they fled from me: destruction to them because they transgressed against me: and I will redeem them and they spake falsehoods against me.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And they cried not to me in their heart, for they shall wail upon their beds: for corn and new wine they will assemble themselves together; they will turn aside against me.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And I corrected and strengthened their arms, and they will purpose evil against me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>They will turn back not to the Highest: they were as a bow of deceit: their chiefs shall fall by the sword from the wrath of their tongue: this their derision in the land of Egypt.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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