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title: Hosea 7
slug: kjv/hosea-7
createdAt: 2024-08-25T02:47:56.170Z
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**1 **When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, *and* the troop of robbers spoileth without.

**2 **And they consider not in their hearts *that* I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.

**3 **They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

**4 **They *are* all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, *who* ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

**5 **In the day of our king the princes have made *him* sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

**6 **For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

**7 **They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: *there is* none among them that calleth unto me.

**8 **Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

**9 **Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth *it* not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

**10 **And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.

**11 **Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

**12 **When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.

**13 **Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

**14 **And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, *and* they rebel against me.

**15 **Though I have bound *and* strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.

**16 **They return, *but* not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this *shall be* their derision in the land of Egypt.