Help QuickNav Adv. Options
NKJV

NKJV

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Hosea 7 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles
Israel Has Rebelled Against God

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:1 - “When I would have healed Israel,
Then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered,
And the wickedness of Samaria.
For they have committed fraud;
A thief comes in;
A band of robbers takes spoil outside.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:2 - They do not consider in their hearts
That I remember all their wickedness;
Now their own deeds have surrounded them;
They are before My face.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:3 - They make a king glad with their wickedness,
And princes with their lies.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:4 - “They are all adulterers.
Like an oven heated by a baker—
He ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough,
Until it is leavened.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:5 - In the day of our king
Princes have made him sick, inflamed with wine;
He stretched out his hand with scoffers.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:6 - They prepare their heart like an oven,
While they lie in wait;
Their baker[fn] sleeps all night;
In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:7 - They are all hot, like an oven,
And have devoured their judges;
All their kings have fallen.
None among them calls upon Me.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:8 - “Ephraim has mixed himself among the peoples;
Ephraim is a cake unturned.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:9 - Aliens have devoured his strength,
But he does not know it;
Yes, gray hairs are here and there on him,
Yet he does not know it.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:10 - And the pride of Israel testifies to his face,
But they do not return to the LORD their God,
Nor seek Him for all this.
Futile Reliance on the Nations

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:11 - “Ephraim also is like a silly dove, without sense—
They call to Egypt,
They go to Assyria.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:12 - Wherever they go, I will spread My net on them;
I will bring them down like birds of the air;
I will chastise them
According to what their congregation has heard.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:13 - “Woe to them, for they have fled from Me!
Destruction to them,
Because they have transgressed against Me!
Though I redeemed them,
Yet they have spoken lies against Me.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:14 - They did not cry out to Me with their heart
When they wailed upon their beds.

“They assemble together for[fn] grain and new wine,
They rebel against Me;[fn]

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:15 - Though I disciplined and strengthened their arms,
Yet they devise evil against Me;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Hos 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:16 - They return, but not to the Most High;[fn]
They are like a treacherous bow.
Their princes shall fall by the sword
For the cursings of their tongue.
This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
Following Masoretic Text and Vulgate; Syriac and Targum read Their anger; Septuagint reads Ephraim.
Following Masoretic Text and Targum; Vulgate reads thought upon; Septuagint reads slashed themselves for (compare 1 Kings 18:28).
Following Masoretic Text, Syriac, and Targum; Septuagint omits They rebel against Me; Vulgate reads They departed from Me.
Or upward
NKJV

New King James Version, © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

The text of the New King James Version (NKJV) appearing on or deriving from this or any other web page is for personal use only. Any other use of the NKJV must be in conformity with the Quotation Policy for the New King James Version. For more information about the New King James Version, the Quotation Policy, and for inquiries about permission to use the New King James Version, go to Thomas Nelson, Inc..

For more information on this translation, see the NKJV Preface.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NKJV
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NKJV
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Hosea Chapter 7 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras