Hosea:7
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When I would have healed Israel Yisra #
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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 .
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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 .
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They make the king glad with their wickedness ,
and the princes with their lies .
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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 .
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In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine ;
he stretched out his hand with scorners .
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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 .
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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 .
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Ephraim ,
he hath mixed himself among the people ;
Ephraim is a cake not turned .
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Strangers have devoured his strength ,
and he knoweth it not :
yea ,
gray hairs are here and there upon him ,
yet he knoweth not .
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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 .
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Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart :
they call to Egypt ,
they go to Assyria .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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Though I have bound and strengthened their arms ,
yet do they imagine mischief against me .
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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 .