Hosea 7

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¹When 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. ✦ ²And 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. ✦ ³They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. ✦ ⁴They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened. ✦ ⁵In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. ✦ ⁶For 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. ✦ ⁷They 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. ✦ ⁸Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. ✦ ⁹Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. ✦ ¹⁰And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this. ✦ ¹¹Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. ✦ ¹²When 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. ✦ ¹³Woe 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. ✦ ¹⁴And 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. ✦ ¹⁵Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me. ✦ ¹⁶They 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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Where this chapter connects

Hos 7 ·11 Hos 8 ·8 Hos 9 ·7 Hos 5 ·7 2 Kgs 15 ·6 Hos 4 ·6 Hos 11 ·5 2 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.

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