Hosea 7
1When I would have healed Israel, 1 Then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: 1 For they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, 1 And the troop of robbers spoileth without. 1
2And they consider not in their hearts 1 That I remember all their wickedness: 1 Now their own doings have beset them about; 1 They are before my face. 1
3They make the king glad with their wickedness, 1 And the princes with their lies. 1
4They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, 1 Who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened. 1
5In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; 1 He stretched out his hand with scorners. 1
6For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: 1 Their baker sleepeth all the night; 1 In the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. 1
7They are all hot as an oven, 1 And have devoured their judges; 1 All their kings are fallen: 1 There is none among them that calleth unto me. 1
8Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; 1 Ephraim is a cake not turned. 1
9Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: 1 Yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. 1
10And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: 1 And they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him for all this. 1
11Ephraim also is like a silly dove, without heart: 1 They call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. 1
12When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; 1 I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; 1 I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard. 1
13Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: 1 Destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: 1 Though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me. 1
14And they have not cried unto me with their heart, 1 When they howled upon their beds: 1 They assemble themselves for corn and wine, 1 And they rebel against me. 1
15Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, 1 Yet do they imagine mischief against me. 1
16They return, but not to the most High: 1 They are like a deceitful bow: 1 Their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: 1 This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.