Hosea 7:1–9
1When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside.↗
2They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.↗
3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.↗
4They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.↗
5On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.↗
6For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their anger smolders all night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.↗
7They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.↗
8Ephraim mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.↗
9Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn’t realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn’t realize it.↗
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