Hosea:7

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* 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 ; * 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 . * They gladdened kings with their wickedness , and princes with their lies . * 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 . * In the days of our kings , the princes began to be inflamed with wine : he stretched out his hand with pestilent fellows . * 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 . * 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 . * Ephraim is mixed among his people ; Ephraim became a cake not turned . * Strangers devoured his strength , and he knew it not ; and grey hairs came upon him , and he knew it not . * 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 . * And Ephraim was as a silly dove , not having a heart : he called to Egypt , and they went to the Assyrians . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * They were instructed by me , and I strengthened their arms ; and they devised evils against me . * 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 .

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