lesserot - Hosea:6:1-7:16

lesserot@Hosea:6:1 @ "Come, and let us return unto the Lord; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind up our wounds.

lesserot@Hosea:6:2 @ He will revive us after two days: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his presence.

lesserot@Hosea:6:3 @ And let us feel it, that we may strive to know the Lord; bright as the morningdawn is his rising; and he will come as the rain unto us, as the latter rain that maketh fruitful the earth."

lesserot@Hosea:6:4 @ What shall I do unto thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do unto thee, O Judah? for your piety is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away.

lesserot@Hosea:6:5 @ Therefore did I hew down by means of the prophets; I slew them by the words of my mouth: and thy punishments go forth like the light.

lesserot@Hosea:6:6 @ For piety I desired, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God, more than burntofferings.

lesserot@Hosea:6:7 @ But they, like an ordinary man, have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

lesserot@Hosea:6:8 @ Gilad is become a city of workers of wickedness, is full of traces of blood.

lesserot@Hosea:6:9 @ And as troops that lie in wait for a man, so is the band of priests, they murder on the way in unison; for they commit scandalous deeds.

lesserot@Hosea:6:10 @ On the house of Israel have I seen a horrible thing: there is lewdness in Ephraim, Israel is become defiled.

lesserot@Hosea:6:11 @ Also for thee, O Judah, will a harvest be prepared, when I bring back the captivity of my people.

lesserot@Hosea:7:1 @ Should I desire to heal Israel, then would the iniquity of Ephraim and the wickedness of Samaria be laid open; for they commit falsehood; and the thief entereth, and the troop of robbers is spread abroad without.

lesserot@Hosea:7:2 @ And they never think in their own heart that I remember all their wickedness: though now their own doings are all round about them; before my face are they present.

lesserot@Hosea:7:3 @ With their wickedness they make the king glad, and with their lies the princes.

lesserot@Hosea:7:4 @ They are all adulterers, as an oven well heated by the baker: he that stirreth resteth awhile from kneading the dough, until it be leavened.

lesserot@Hosea:7:5 @ On the day of our kings the princes are made sick with the fumes of wine: joineth his hand with scorners.

lesserot@Hosea:7:6 @ For they make ready their heart for their tricky deeds, like the oven, the baker whereof sleepeth all the night, while in the morning it gloweth as a flaming fire.

lesserot@Hosea:7:7 @ They are all hot as an oven, they devour their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.

lesserot@Hosea:7:8 @ Ephraim mixeth himself indeed among the nations: Ephraim is a cake not turned.

lesserot@Hosea:7:9 @ Strangers devour his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are sprinkled about on his, yet he knoweth not.

lesserot@Hosea:7:10 @ And humbled was the pride of Israel before his own face; but they did not return to the Lord their God, and sought him not, notwithstanding all this.

lesserot@Hosea:7:11 @ And Ephraim is become like a silly dove without understanding: Egypt did they call hither, to Assyria did they go.

lesserot@Hosea:7:12 @ As they go, so will I spread out my net over them; as the fowls of the heaven will I bring them down: I will chastise them, as it hath been announced to their congregation.

lesserot@Hosea:7:13 @ Woe unto them! for they have fled from me; destruction shall come unto them, because they have transgressed against me: though I desired to redeem them, they yet spoke lies against me.

lesserot@Hosea:7:14 @ And they cried not unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: for corn and new wine they assemble themselves, and they rebel against me.

lesserot@Hosea:7:15 @ And I desired to instruct and to strengthen their arms; yet would they devise evil against me.

lesserot@Hosea:7:16 @ They never return upward: they are like a deceitful bow: by the sword shall their princes fall because of the rage of their tongue; this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.