dby Hosea:6:1-7:16
dby@Hosea:6:1 @ Come and let us return unto Jehovah: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
dby@Hosea:6:2 @ After two days will he revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before his face;
dby@Hosea:6:3 @ and we shall know, -- we shall follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is assured as the morning dawn; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain which watereth the earth.
dby@Hosea:6:4 @ What shall I do unto thee, Ephraim? What shall I do unto thee, Judah? For your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that early passeth away.
dby@Hosea:6:5 @ Therefore have I hewed [them] by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and my judgment goeth forth as the light.
dby@Hosea:6:6 @ For I delight in loving-kindness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
dby@Hosea:6:7 @ But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
dby@Hosea:6:8 @ Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is tracked with blood.
dby@Hosea:6:9 @ And as troops of robbers lie in wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way of Shechem; yea, they commit lewdness.
dby@Hosea:6:10 @ In the house of Israel have I seen a horrible thing: the whoredom of Ephraim is there; Israel is defiled.
dby@Hosea:6:11 @ Also, for thee, Judah, is a harvest appointed, when I shall turn again the captivity of my people.
dby@Hosea:7:1 @ When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they practise falsehood; and the thief entereth in, [and] the troop of robbers assaileth without.
dby@Hosea:7:2 @ And they say not in their hearts [that] I remember all their wickedness: now do their own doings encompass them; they are before my face.
dby@Hosea:7:3 @ They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
dby@Hosea:7:4 @ They all practise adultery, as an oven heated by the baker: he ceaseth from stirring [the fire] after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
dby@Hosea:7:5 @ In the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine: he stretched out his hand to scorners.
dby@Hosea:7:6 @ For they have applied their heart like an oven to their lying in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth like a flaming fire.
dby@Hosea:7:7 @ They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
dby@Hosea:7:8 @ Ephraim, he mixeth himself with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
dby@Hosea:7:9 @ Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth [it] not; yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth [it] not.
dby@Hosea:7:10 @ And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face; and they do not return to Jehovah their God, nor seek him for all this.
dby@Hosea:7:11 @ And Ephraim is become like a silly dove without understanding: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
dby@Hosea:7:12 @ When they go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowl of the heavens; I will chastise them, according as their assembly hath heard.
dby@Hosea:7:13 @ Woe unto them! for they have wandered from me; destruction unto them! for they have transgressed against me. And I would redeem them; but they speak lies against me.
dby@Hosea:7:14 @ And they cried not unto me in their heart, when they howled upon their beds; they assemble themselves for corn and new wine; they have turned aside from me.
dby@Hosea:7:15 @ I have indeed trained, I have strengthened their arms, but they imagine mischief against me.
dby@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.
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