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# Hosea 7

[1](#verse-1) When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside.

[2](#verse-2) They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.

[3](#verse-3) They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

[4](#verse-4) They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.

[5](#verse-5) On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.

[6](#verse-6) For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their anger smolders all night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

[7](#verse-7) They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.

[8](#verse-8) Ephraim mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.

[9](#verse-9) Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn’t realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn’t realize it.

[10](#verse-10) The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven’t returned to the LORD their God, nor sought him, for all this.

[11](#verse-11) “Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

[12](#verse-12) When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.

[13](#verse-13) Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

[14](#verse-14) They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.

[15](#verse-15) Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet they plot evil against me.

[16](#verse-16) They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

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