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Hosea 7 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

Hos 7:1

When I would heal Israel,

Then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered,

And the evil deeds of Samaria,

For they work falsehood;

The thief enters in;

Raiders [fn]ransack outside,

Hos 7:2

And they do not say to their hearts

That I remember all their evil.

Now their deeds are all around them;

They are before My face.

Hos 7:3

With their evil they make the king glad,

And the princes with their deceptions.

Hos 7:4

They are all adulterers,

Like an oven heated by the baker

Who ceases to stir up the fire

From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

Hos 7:5

On the [fn]day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine;

He stretched out his hand with scoffers,

Hos 7:6

For their hearts are like an oven

As they draw near in their [fn]plotting;

Their [fn]anger [fn]smolders all night;

In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.

Hos 7:7

All of them are hot like an oven,

And they devour their judges;

All their kings have fallen.

None of them calls on Me.

Hos 7:8

Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples;

Ephraim has become a cake not turned.

Hos 7:9

Strangers devour his power,

Yet he does not know it;

Gray hairs also are sprinkled on him,

Yet he does not know it.

Hos 7:10

So the pride of Israel answers against him,

Yet they have not returned to Yahweh their God,

Nor have they sought Him, for all this.

Hos 7:11

So Ephraim has become like a silly dove, without a heart of wisdom;

They call to Egypt; they go to Assyria.

Hos 7:12

When they go, I will spread My net over them;

I will bring them down like the birds of the sky.

I will chastise them in accordance with the report to their congregation.

Hos 7:13

Woe to them, for they have fled from Me!

Destruction is theirs, for they have transgressed against Me!

And I would redeem them, but they speak lies against Me.

Hos 7:14

And they do not cry out to Me in their heart

When they wail on their beds;

For the sake of grain and new wine they [fn]gather together as sojourners;

They depart from Me.

Hos 7:15

Although I disciplined and strengthened their arms,

Yet they devise evil against Me.

Hos 7:16

They turn, but not [fn]upward;

They are like a deceitful bow;

Their princes will fall by the sword

Because of the [fn]indignation of their tongue.

This will be their scoffing in the land of Egypt.

LSB Footnotes
Lit strip
A festive occasion
Lit ambush
As in some ancient versions; M.T. baker
Lit sleeps
Gr and many ancient mss gash themselves
Or possibly to the Most High
Or cursing
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