Hosea 7

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¹“When I would have healed Israel, Then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, And the wickedness of Samaria. For they have committed fraud; A thief comes in; A band of robbers takes spoil outside. ✦ ²They do not consider in their hearts That I remember all their wickedness; Now their own deeds have surrounded them; They are before My face. ✦ ³They make a king glad with their wickedness, And princes with their lies. ✦ ⁴“Theyare all adulterers. Like an oven heated by a baker— He ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough, Until it is leavened. ✦ ⁵In the day of our king Princes have made him sick, inflamed with wine; He stretched out his hand with scoffers. ✦ ⁶They prepare their heart like an oven, While they lie in wait; Their baker sleeps all night; In the morning it burns like a flaming fire. ✦ ⁷They are all hot, like an oven, And have devoured their judges; All their kings have fallen. None among them calls upon Me. ✦ ⁸“Ephraim has mixed himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake unturned. ✦ ⁹Aliens 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. ✦ ¹⁰And the pride of Israel testifies to his face, But they do not return to the Lord their God, Nor seek Him for all this. ✦ ¹¹“Ephraimalso is like a silly dove, without sense— They call to Egypt, They go to Assyria. ✦ ¹²Wherever they go, I will spread My net on them; I will bring them down like birds of the air; I will chastise them 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 I redeemed them, Yet they have spoken lies against Me. ✦ ¹⁴They did not cry out to Me with their heart When they wailed upon their beds. “They assemble together for grain and new wine, They rebel against Me; ✦ ¹⁵Though I disciplined and strengthened their arms, Yet they devise evil against Me; ✦ ¹⁶They return, but not to the Most High; They are like a treacherous bow. Their princes shall fall by the sword For the cursings of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt. ✦

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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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