Hosea:7

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* When I would heal Israel , then is the iniquity of Ephraim uncovered , and the wickedness of Samaria ; for they commit falsehood , and the thief enters in , and the troop of robbers ravages outside . * And they don 't consider 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 ; they are as an oven heated by the baker ; he ceases to stir [the fire ], from the kneading of the dough , until it is leavened . * On the day of our king the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine ; he stretched out his hand with scoffers . * For they have brought their heart into their ambush , as into an oven : their baker sleeps all the night ; in the morning it burns as a flaming fire . * They are all hot as an oven , and devour their judges ; all their kings have fallen : there is none among them who calls to me . * Ephraim , he mixes himself among the peoples ; Ephraim is a cake not turned . * Strangers have devoured his strength , and he does not know [it ]: yes , gray hairs are here and there on him , and he does not know [it ]. * And the pride of Israel testifies to his face : yet they have not returned to Yahweh their God , nor sought him , for all this . * And Ephraim is like a silly dove , without understanding : they call to Egypt , they go to Assyria . * When they will go , I will spread my net on them ; I will bring them down as the birds of the heavens ; I will chastise them , as their congregation has heard . * Woe to them ! For they have wandered from me ; destruction to them ! For they have trespassed against me : though I would redeem them , yet they have spoken lies against me . * And they have not cried to me with their heart , but they howl on their beds : they gash themselves for grain and new wine ; they rebel against me . * Though I have taught and strengthened their arms , yet they devise mischief against me . * They return , but not upwards ; they are like a deceitful bow ; their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue : this will be their derision in the land of Egypt .

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