Hosea:7

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* When I would have healed Israel , then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered , and the wickedness of Samaria : for they commit falsehood ; and the thief comes in , and the troop of robbers spoils without . * 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 . * They make the king glad with their wickedness , and the princes with their lies . * They are all adulterers , as an oven heated by the baker , who ceases from raising after he has kneaded the dough , until it be leavened . * In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine ; he stretched out his hand with scorners . * For they have made ready their heart like an oven , while they lie in wait : their baker sleeps all the night ; in the morning it burns as a flaming fire . * They are all hot as an oven , and have devoured their judges ; all their kings are fallen : there is none among them that calls unto me . * Ephraim , he has mixed himself among the people ; Ephraim is a cake not turned . * Strangers have devoured his strength , and he knows it not : yea , gray hairs are here and there upon him , yet he knows not . * And the pride of Israel testifies to his face : and they do not return to the LORD their God , nor seek him for all this . * Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart : they call to Egypt , they go to Assyria . * 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 has heard . * 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 . * 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 . * Though I have bound and strengthened their arms , yet do they imagine mischief against me . * 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 .

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