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Hosea 7
New King James Version

### 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.
2 They [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.
3 They 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.
5 In the day of our king
Princes have made him sick, [c]inflamed with (F)wine;
He stretched out his hand with scoffers.
6 They 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.
7 They 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.
10 And 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.
12 Wherever 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;
15 Though I disciplined and strengthened their arms,
Yet they devise evil against Me;
16 They 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.

#### Footnotes

1. Hosea 7:1 plunders
2. Hosea 7:2 Lit. do not say to
3. Hosea 7:5 Lit. with the heat of
4. Hosea 7:6 So with MT, Vg.; Syr., Tg. Their anger; LXX Ephraim
5. Hosea 7:11 Lit. heart
6. Hosea 7:14 So with MT, Tg.; Vg. thought upon; LXX slashed themselves for (cf. 1 Kin. 18:28)
7. Hosea 7:14 So with MT, Syr., Tg.; LXX omits They rebel against Me; Vg. They departed from Me
8. Hosea 7:16 Or upward

#### Cross references

1. Hosea 7:1 : Ezek. 23:4–8; Hos. 5:1
2. Hosea 7:2 : Ps. 25:7; Jer. 14:10; 17:1; Hos. 8:13; 9:9; Amos 8:7
3. Hosea 7:3 : Hos. 1:1
4. Hosea 7:3 : Mic. 7:3; [Rom. 1:32]
5. Hosea 7:4 : Jer. 9:2; 23:10
6. Hosea 7:5 : Is. 28:1, 7
7. Hosea 7:7 : Is. 64:7
8. Hosea 7:8 : Ps. 106:35
9. Hosea 7:9 : Is. 1:7; 42:25; Hos. 8:7
10. Hosea 7:10 : Hos. 5:5
11. Hosea 7:10 : Is. 9:13
12. Hosea 7:11 : Hos. 11:11
13. Hosea 7:11 : Is. 30:3
14. Hosea 7:11 : Hos. 5:13; 8:9
15. Hosea 7:12 : Ezek. 12:13
16. Hosea 7:12 : Lev. 26:14; Deut. 28:15; 2 Kin. 17:13
17. Hosea 7:13 : Ex. 18:8; Mic. 6:4
18. Hosea 7:14 : Job 35:9, 10; Ps. 78:36; Jer. 3:10; Zech. 7:5
19. Hosea 7:14 : Judg. 9:27; Amos 2:8
20. Hosea 7:16 : Ps. 78:57
21. Hosea 7:16 : Ps. 73:9; Dan. 7:25; Mal. 3:13, 14
22. Hosea 7:16 : Deut. 28:68; Ezek. 23:32; Hos. 8:13; 9:3

New King James Version (NKJV)

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