bes - 7

bes@Hosea:7:1 @ When I have healed Israel, then shall the iniquity of Ephraim be revealed, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they have wrought falsehood: and a thief shall come in to him, even a robber (note:)Lit. stripping(:note) spoiling in his way;

bes@Hosea:7:2 @ that they may concert together as men singing in their heart: I remember all their wickedness: now have their own counsels compassed them about; they came before my face.

bes@Hosea:7:3 @ They gladdened kings with their wickedness, and princes with their lies.

bes@Hosea:7:4 @ They are all adulterers, as an oven glowing with flame for hot-baking, on account of the kneading of the (note:)Compl. zumhv, leaven(:note) dough, until it is leavened.

bes@Hosea:7:5 @ In the days of our kings, the princes began to be inflamed with wine: he stretched out his hand with pestilent fellows.

bes@Hosea:7:6 @ Wherefore their hearts are inflamed as an oven, while they rage all the night: Ephraim is satisfied with sleep; the morning is come; he is burnt up as a flame of fire.

bes@Hosea:7:7 @ They are all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges: all their kings are fallen; there was not among them one that called on me.

bes@Hosea:7:8 @ Ephraim is mixed among his people; Ephraim became a cake not turned.

bes@Hosea:7:9 @ Strangers devoured his strength, and he knew it not; and grey hairs came upon him, and he knew it not.

bes@Hosea:7:10 @ And the pride of Israel shall be brought down before his face: yet they have not returned to the Lord their God, neither have they diligently sought him for all this.

bes@Hosea:7:11 @ And Ephraim was as a silly dove, not having a heart: he called to Egypt, and they went to the Assyrians.

bes@Hosea:7:12 @ Whenever they shall go, I will cast my net upon them; I will bring them down as the birds of the sky, I will chasten them with the rumor of their coming affliction.

bes@Hosea:7:13 @ Woe to them! for they have started aside from me: they are cowards; for they have sinned against me: yet I redeemed them, but they spoke falsehoods against me.

bes@Hosea:7:14 @ And their hearts did not cry to me, but they howled on their beds: they (note:)Gr. cut themselves(:note) pined for oil and wine.

bes@Hosea:7:15 @ They were instructed by me, and I strengthened their arms; and they devised evils against me.

bes@Hosea:7:16 @ They turned aside to (note:)Gr. nothing(:note) that which is not, they became as a bent bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, by reason of the unbridled state of their tongue: this is their setting at nought in the land of Egypt.

Hosea 7