Hosea 7

Ephraim’s Wrongdoing

Hosea 7:1

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

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Hosea 7:2

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

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Hosea 7:3

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

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Hosea 7:4

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

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Hosea 7:5

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

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Hosea 7:6

For they have made 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.

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Hosea 7:7

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

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Hosea 7:8

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

Breakdown

cake not turned Various shades of brown.

Colour Scriptures

Genesis 50:11 Job 30:30 Song of Solomon 1:5 Jeremiah 14:2 Lamentations 4:8 Amos 9:7 Revelation 1:13-16

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Hosea 7:9

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

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Hosea 7:10

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.

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Hosea 7:11

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

Precepts

Isaiah 19:23

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Hosea 7:12

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.

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Hosea 7:13

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

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Hosea 7:14

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

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Hosea 7:15

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

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Hosea 7:16

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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