Hosea 7
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1when I would heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed, and the evil deeds of Samaria, for they deal falsely; the thief breaks in, and the bandits raid outside.1"When I was healing Israel, Ephraim's sin was uncovered, along with Samaria's wickedness. While they craft lying schemes, the thief invades, and the gang of thieves plunders outside.
2But they do not consider that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face.2It never occurs to them that I remember all their sin. Now their actions have caught up with them, and they have my attention.
3By their evil they make the king glad, and the princes by their treachery.3They please the king with their evil, and the princes with their dishonesty.
4They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven whose baker ceases to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.4All of them are adulterers— they burn like an oven prepared by the baker, who has ceased stoking it until the dough is leavened.
5On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.5"On the king's festival day the princes got drunk from wine, so the king joined the mockers.
6For with hearts like an oven they approach their intrigue; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.6For they have stirred up themselves like an oven as they lie in ambush. Their baker sleeps through the night; in the morning, the oven will be blazing like a fire.
7All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen, and none of them calls upon me.7They all burn like an oven; they have consumed their judges; all their kings have fallen— not even one of them calls on me.
8Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.8"Ephraim compromises with the nations; he's a half-baked cake.
9Strangers devour his strength, and he knows it not; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, and he knows it not.9Foreigners have consumed his strength, and he hasn't noticed. Furthermore, his head is sprinkled with gray hair, but he doesn't realize it.
10The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him, for all this.10Israel's arrogance testifies against him; but they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him in all of this.
11Ephraim is like a dove, silly and without sense, calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.11"Ephraim is also like a silly dove, lacking sense: They call out to Egypt, and turn toward Assyria.
12As they go, I will spread over them my net; I will bring them down like birds of the heavens; I will discipline them according to the report made to their congregation.12When they go, I'll cast my net over them. I'll bring them down, as one shoots birds in the sky. I'll chasten them, as the assembly has already heard.
13Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me.13Woe to them— because they have run away from me. Ruin to them— because they have sinned against me. Even though I redeemed them, they spread lies against me.
14They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; for grain and wine they gash themselves; they rebel against me.14They will not cry to me from their heart— instead, they wail on their beds. They gather together to eat and drink, turning away from me.
15Although I trained and strengthened their arms, yet they devise evil against me.15"Though I have taught them and strengthened their arms, nevertheless they plot evil against me.
16They return, but not upward; they are like a treacherous bow; their princes shall fall by the sword because of the insolence of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.16They return—but not to the Most High. They are like a defective weapon. Their princes will fall by the sword because of their raging tongue, and they will be a laughingstock in the land of Egypt."
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