# Hosea 7 
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1. when I would heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed, and the evil deeds of Samaria, for they deal falsely; the thief breaks in, and the bandits raid outside. 
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2. But they do not consider that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face. 
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3. By their evil they make the king glad, and the princes by their treachery. 
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4. They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven whose baker ceases to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened. 
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5. On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers. 
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6. For with hearts like an oven they approach their intrigue; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire. 
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7. All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen, and none of them calls upon me. 
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8. Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned. 
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9. Strangers devour his strength, and he knows it not; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, and he knows it not. 
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10. The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him, for all this. 
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11. Ephraim is like a dove, silly and without sense, calling to Egypt, going to Assyria. 
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12. As they go, I will spread over them my net; I will bring them down like birds of the heavens; I will discipline them according to the report made to their congregation. 
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13. Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me. 
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14. They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; for grain and wine they gash themselves; they rebel against me. 
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15. Although I trained and strengthened their arms, yet they devise evil against me. 
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16. They return, but not upward; they are like a treacherous bow; their princes shall fall by the sword because of the insolence of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt. 

(ESV)