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Hosea 7 New King James Version (NKJV)

Israel Has Rebelled Against God

7 “When I would have healed Israel,
Then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered,
And the wickedness of Samaria.
For ^(A)they have committed fraud;
A thief comes in;
A band of robbers ^[a]takes spoil outside.
²They ^[b]do not consider in their hearts
That ^(B)I remember all their wickedness;
Now their own deeds have surrounded them;
They are before My face.
³They make a ^(C)king glad with their wickedness,
And princes ^(D)with their lies.

⁴“They^(E) are all adulterers.
Like an oven heated by a baker—
He ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough,
Until it is leavened.
⁵In the day of our king
Princes have made him sick, ^[c]inflamed with ^(F)wine;
He stretched out his hand with scoffers.
⁶They prepare their heart like an oven,
While they lie in wait;
^[d]Their baker sleeps all night;
In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.
⁷They are all hot, like an oven,
And have devoured their judges;
All their kings have fallen.
^(G)None among them calls upon Me.

⁸“Ephraim ^(H)has mixed himself among the peoples;
Ephraim is a cake unturned.
⁹^(I)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.
¹⁰And the ^(J)pride of Israel testifies to his face,
But ^(K)they do not return to the Lord their God,
Nor seek Him for all this.

Futile Reliance on the Nations

¹¹“Ephraim^(L) also is like a silly dove, without ^[e]sense—
^(M)They call to Egypt,
They go to ^(N)Assyria.
¹²Wherever they go, I will ^(O)spread My net on them;
I will bring them down like birds of the air;
I will chastise them
^(P)According to what their congregation has heard.

¹³“Woe to them, for they have fled from Me!
Destruction to them,
Because they have transgressed against Me!
Though ^(Q)I redeemed them,
Yet they have spoken lies against Me.
¹⁴^(R)They did not cry out to Me with their heart
When they wailed upon their beds.

“They ^[f]assemble together for grain and new ^(S)wine,
^[g]They rebel against Me;
¹⁵Though I disciplined and strengthened their arms,
Yet they devise evil against Me;
¹⁶They return, but not ^[h]to the Most High;
^(T)They are like a treacherous bow.
Their princes shall fall by the sword
For the ^(U)cursings of their tongue.
This shall be their derision ^(V)in the land of Egypt.

New King James Version (NKJV)