kjv - Hosea:6:1-7:16

kjv@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 us up.

kjv@Hosea:6:2 @ After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

kjv@Hosea:6:3 @ Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

kjv@Hosea:6:4 @ O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

kjv@Hosea:6:5 @ Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.

kjv@Hosea:6:6 @ For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

kjv@Hosea:6:7 @ But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

kjv@Hosea:6:8 @ Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

kjv@Hosea:6:9 @ And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

kjv@Hosea:6:10 @ I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

kjv@Hosea:6:11 @ Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

kjv@Hosea:7:1 @ 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 cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.

kjv@Hosea:7:2 @ 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.

kjv@Hosea:7:3 @ They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

kjv@Hosea:7:4 @ 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.

kjv@Hosea:7:5 @ In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

kjv@Hosea:7:6 @ 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.

kjv@Hosea:7:7 @ 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.

kjv@Hosea:7:8 @ Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

kjv@Hosea:7:9 @ Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

kjv@Hosea:7:10 @ 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.

kjv@Hosea:7:11 @ Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

kjv@Hosea:7:12 @ 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.

kjv@Hosea:7:13 @ 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.

kjv@Hosea:7:14 @ 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.

kjv@Hosea:7:15 @ Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.

kjv@Hosea:7:16 @ 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.