King James Bible

Hosea 6

The Book of Hosea

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Chapter 7

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. 

 


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