Hosea:6:1-7:16
noyes@Hosea:6:1 @ "Come, and let us return to Jehovah! For he hath torn, and he will heal us; He hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
noyes@Hosea:6:2 @ After two days will he revive us, On the third day he will raise us up, And we shall live in his presence,
noyes@Hosea:6:3 @ Let us, therefore, know him; Let us ever strive to know Jehovah, His coming forth is sure as the morning; He will come to us like the rain, Like the latter rain which watereth the earth."
noyes@Hosea:6:4 @ O Ephraim, what shall I do to thee? O Judah, what shall I do to thee? For your goodness is like the morning cloud, And like the early dew, which vanisheth away.
noyes@Hosea:6:5 @ Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth, And my judgments have gone forth like the light.
noyes@Hosea:6:6 @ For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice, And the knowledge of God rather than burnt–offerings.
noyes@Hosea:6:7 @ But they, after the manner of men, have transgressed the covenant; Even therein have they dealt unfaithfully with me.
noyes@Hosea:6:8 @ Gilead is a city of them that do iniquity; She is full of footsteps of blood.
noyes@Hosea:6:9 @ As troops of robbers lying in wait for a man, so is the company of priests; They murder in the way to Shechem; Yea, they commit heinous wickedness.
noyes@Hosea:6:10 @ I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel; There Ephraim committeth fornication, Israel is polluted.
noyes@Hosea:6:11 @ For thee also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed.
noyes@Hosea:7:1 @ When I was about to deliver my people from captivity, When I would have healed Israel, Then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, And the wickedness of Samaria; For they practise fraud, And the thief entereth in, And the band of robbers spoileth without.
noyes@Hosea:7:2 @ And they think not in their hearts, That I remember all their wickedness. Now shall their doings encompass them; They are before my face.
noyes@Hosea:7:3 @ With their wickedness they gladden the king, And with their falsehoods the princes; All of them are adulterers;
noyes@Hosea:7:4 @ They are as an oven heated by the baker; He ceaseth to stir the fire, Until the dough which he hath kneaded be leavened.
noyes@Hosea:7:5 @ On the feast–day of our king, the princes are sick with the heat of wine, And he stretcheth out his hand with revilers.
noyes@Hosea:7:6 @ For they make ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait; All night the baker sleepeth; In the morning it gloweth like a flaming fire.
noyes@Hosea:7:7 @ They all glow as an oven; They have devoured their judges; All their kings have fallen; And none among them calleth upon me.
noyes@Hosea:7:8 @ Ephraim hath mixed himself with the nations; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
noyes@Hosea:7:9 @ Strangers have devoured his strength, And he knoweth it not; Yea, gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, Yet he knoweth it not.
noyes@Hosea:7:10 @ The pride of Israel testifieth to his face; Yet do not they return to Jehovah their God, Nor seek him, for all this.
noyes@Hosea:7:11 @ Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding; They call upon Egypt; they go to Assyria.
noyes@Hosea:7:12 @ When they go, I will spread my net over them; As birds of heaven will I bring them down. I will chastise them, as hath been proclaimed in their congregation.
noyes@Hosea:7:13 @ Woe to them, for they have wandered from me! Destruction upon them, for they have rebelled against me! Though I myself would redeem them, they speak falsely to me.
noyes@Hosea:7:14 @ They cry not to me from their heart, But howl upon their beds; For corn and wine they assemble themselves; They rebel against me.
noyes@Hosea:7:15 @ I have chastened them; I have also strengthened their arms; Yet do they devise evil against me.
noyes@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 haughtiness of their tongues; This shall be their reproach in the land of Egypt.
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