Noah Webster Bible

Hosea 6

The Book of Hosea

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Chapter 7

1

  When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was disclosed, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers strippeth without. 

 


2

  And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them around; they are before my face. 

 


3

  They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. 

 


4

  They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it is leavened. 

 


5

  In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. 

 


6

  For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while 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, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth to me. 

 


8

  Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. 

 


9

  Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yes, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. 

 


10

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

 


11

  Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. 

 


12

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

 


13

  Woe to them! for they have fled from me: destruction to them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me. 

 


14

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

 


15

  Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me. 

 


16

  They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt. 

 


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