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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 Lamsa Bible</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="../">Lamsa</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">Lamsa Bible</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"><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/7-1.htm#aramaic"><b>1</b></a></span>WHEN I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was revealed and the wickedness of Samaria; for they committed falsehood in my presence; and the thief came in, and the robber robbed men in the streets.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/7-2.htm#aramaic"><b>2</b></a></span>And they never said in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness; now their own devices have beset them about; they were before my face.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/7-3.htm#aramaic"><b>3</b></a></span>They have made the kings glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/7-4.htm#aramaic"><b>4</b></a></span>Their rulers are all adulterers, their passion is as an oven heated to bake bread, the baker who kneads the dough ceases from going to the city, and waits until it is leavened.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/7-5.htm#aramaic"><b>5</b></a></span>The day they start to give counsel, the princes begin to become inflamed with wine; they stretch out their hands with wicked men.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/7-6.htm#aramaic"><b>6</b></a></span>Because their heart is hot like an oven with their plots, all night their anger is suppressed; and in the morning it burns as a flaming fire.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/7-7.htm#aramaic"><b>7</b></a></span>They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings have fallen; there is none among them who calls upon me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/7-8.htm#aramaic"><b>8</b></a></span>Ephraim has mixed himself with Gentiles; Ephraim has become as a loaf of bread which is eaten before it is baked.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/7-9.htm#aramaic"><b>9</b></a></span>Thus strangers have devoured his strength, and he knows it not: yea, gray hairs have grown upon him, yet he knows it not.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/7-10.htm#aramaic"><b>10</b></a></span>And the pride of Israel has been humbled in his presence; and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/7-11.htm#aramaic"><b>11</b></a></span>Ephraim also is like a young dove without understanding; they have come to Egypt, they are gone to Assyria.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/7-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>Wherever they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the air; I will chastise them according to the testimony which is heard against them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/7-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>Woe to them! for they have fled from me; I will bring misfortune upon them because they have transgressed against me; though I have saved them, yet they have spoken lies against me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/7-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>And they have not cried unto me with their heart, but they howled upon their beds; they quarrel over wheat and wine, and they have rebelled against me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/7-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>Though I have disciplined and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/hosea/7-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>They have perverted themselves for nothing; they have become like a deceitful bow; their princes shall fall by the sword because of the boldness of their tongue; such shall be their entanglement in the land of Egypt.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Holy Bible From The Ancient Eastern Texts: Aramaic Of The Peshitta by George M. 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