Hosea

7 1 WHEN ^aI would have healed Israel, then ^bthe iniquity of Ephraim was ^*discovered, and the ¹wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers ²spoileth ^*without.

2 And they ³consider not in their hearts that ^cI remember all their wickedness: ^dnow their own doings have ^ebeset them about; they are ^fbefore my face.

3 ^gThey make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

4 ^hThey are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, ⁴who ceaseth ⁵from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be ^*leavened.

5 In ⁱthe day of our king the princes have made him ^jsick with ⁶bottles of wine; he ^kstretched out his hand with scorners.

6 For ^lthey have ⁷made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

7 They are all hot as an oven, ^mand have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: ⁿthere is none among them that calleth unto me.

8 Ephraim, ^ohe hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is ^pa cake not turned.

9 ^qStrangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are ⁸here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

10 And the ^rpride of Israel testifieth to his face: and ^sthey do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.

11 ¶Ephraim also is ^tlike a ^*silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

12 When they shall go, ^uI will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I ^vwill chastise them, ^was their congregation hath heard.

13 ^xWoe unto them! for they have fled from me: ⁹destruction unto them! ^ybecause they have transgressed against me: though ^zI have redeemed them, yet they have spoken ^alies against me.

14 And ^bthey have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: ^cthey assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.

15 ^dThough I have ¹⁰bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they ^eimagine mischief against me.

16 ^fThey return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the ^grage of their tongue: this shall be their derision ^hin the land of Egypt.