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Hosea 7

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1When I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim will be exposed, as well as the crimes of Samaria. For they practice deceit and thieves break in; bandits raid in the streets. ✦ 2But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face. ✦ 3They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies. ✦ 4They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough. ✦ 5The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him. ✦ 6For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire. ✦ 7All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me. ✦ 8Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is an unturned cake. ✦ 9Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know. ✦ 10Israel’s arrogance testifies against them, yet they do not return to the LORD their God; despite all this, they do not seek Him. ✦ 11So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove—calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria. ✦ 12As they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the air. I will chastise them when I hear them flocking together. ✦ 13Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redeem them, they speak lies against Me. ✦ 14They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me. ✦ 15Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil against Me. ✦ 16They turn, but not to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword for the cursing of their tongue; for this they will be ridiculed in the land of Egypt. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Hos 7 ·11Hos 8 ·8Hos 9 ·7Hos 5 ·72 Kgs 15 ·6Hos 4 ·6Hos 11 ·52 Kgs 13 ·4

Christ at the center

God's relentless love for an unfaithful bride dramatizes the gospel: 'Out of Egypt I called my son' is fulfilled in Jesus, who redeems an adulterous people at his own cost.

How Hosea 7 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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