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They cheat one another; they break into houses and steal; they rob people in the streets. </span><span class="v28_7_2"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.7.2" class="v28_7_2">2</span>It never enters their heads that I will remember all this evil; but their sins surround them, and I cannot avoid seeing them.”</span></p><h3 class="s">Conspiracy in the Palace</h3><p class="par"><span class="v28_7_3"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.7.3" class="v28_7_3">3</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> says, “People deceive the king and his officers by their evil plots. </span><span class="v28_7_4"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.7.4" class="v28_7_4">4</span>They are all treacherous and disloyal. Their hatred smolders like the fire in an oven, which is not stirred by the baker until the dough is ready to bake. </span><span class="v28_7_5"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.7.5" class="v28_7_5">5</span>On the day of the king's celebration they made the king and his officials drunk and foolish with wine. </span><span class="v28_7_6"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.7.6" class="v28_7_6">6</span>Yes, they burned<a href="#fn" id="link_Hos.7.6!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> like an oven with their plotting. All night their anger smoldered, and in the morning it burst into flames.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v28_7_7"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.7.7" class="v28_7_7">7</span>“In the heat of their anger they murdered their rulers. Their kings have been assassinated one after another, but no one prays to me for help.”</span></p><h3 class="s">Israel and the Nations</h3><p class="par"><span class="v28_7_8"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.7.8" class="v28_7_8">8</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> says, “The people of Israel are like a half-baked loaf of bread. They rely on the nations around them </span><span class="v28_7_9"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.7.9" class="v28_7_9">9</span>and do not realize that this reliance on foreigners has robbed them of their strength. Their days are numbered, but they don't even know it. </span><span class="v28_7_10"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.7.10" class="v28_7_10">10</span>The arrogance of the people of Israel cries out against them. In spite of everything that has happened, they have not returned to me, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> their God. </span><span class="v28_7_11"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.7.11" class="v28_7_11">11</span>Israel flits around like a silly pigeon; first her people call on Egypt for help, and then they run to Assyria! </span><span class="v28_7_12"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.7.12" class="v28_7_12">12</span>But I will spread out a net and catch them like birds as they go by. I will punish them for the evil they have done.<a href="#fn" id="link_Hos.7.12!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v28_7_13"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.7.13" class="v28_7_13">13</span>“They are doomed! They have left me and rebelled against me. They will be destroyed. I wanted to save them, but their worship of me was false. </span><span class="v28_7_14"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.7.14" class="v28_7_14">14</span>They have not prayed to me sincerely, but instead they throw themselves down and wail as the heathen do. When they pray for grain and wine, they gash themselves like pagans. What rebels they are! </span><span class="v28_7_15"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.7.15" class="v28_7_15">15</span>Even though I was the one who brought them up and made them strong, they plotted against me. </span><span class="v28_7_16"><span class="reftext" id="Hos.7.16" class="v28_7_16">16</span>They keep on turning away from me to a god that is powerless.<a href="#fn" id="link_Hos.7.16!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> They are as unreliable as a crooked bow. Because their leaders talk arrogantly, they will die a violent death, and the Egyptians will laugh.”</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">7.6: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One ancient translation </char><char style="fq" closed="false">burned; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">drew near.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">7.12: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Probable text </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the evil they have done; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the report to their congregation.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">7.16: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Probable text </char><char style="fq" closed="false">a god that is powerless; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew unclear.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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