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.
HOSEA 7:1
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.
HOSEA 7:2
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
HOSEA 7:3
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.
HOSEA 7:4
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
HOSEA 7:5
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.
HOSEA 7:6
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.
HOSEA 7:7
Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
HOSEA 7:8
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
HOSEA 7:9
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.
HOSEA 7:10
Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
HOSEA 7:11
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.
HOSEA 7:12
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.
HOSEA 7:13
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.
HOSEA 7:14
Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
HOSEA 7:15
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.