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    Hosea · 16 verses

    Hosea 7

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    Ephraim has gray hair and does not know it. The oven is hot, the cake is unturned, and the dove is calling first to Egypt and then to Assyria—an alarming amount of kitchenware and birdlife for one political crisis.

    The oven that devours rulersvv. 1–7

    Israel’s healing begins with an unpleasant inspection: Ephraim’s iniquity and Samaria’s crimes are exposed, while thieves and bandits go about their brisk street business. The king enjoys evil, the princes enjoy lies, and wine joins the festivities until the rulers themselves are devoured. The oven needs no stoking; anger has managed the household perfectly well overnight.

    The gray-haired dovevv. 8–16

    Ephraim mixes with the nations and emerges as an unturned cake, which is a very particular sort of failure. Foreigners consume his strength while the gray appears unnoticed; Israel’s arrogance speaks plainly, but Israel does not return or seek. Ephraim then flutters between Egypt and Assyria, only to meet a net. The wailing and self-inflicted cutting are aimed at grain and new wine rather than at the LORD, and the leaders finish as a faulty bow finishes: falling by the sword, with Egypt laughing at the result.

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    1. Hos 7:1When 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.

    2. Hos 7:2But 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.

    3. Hos 7:3They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies.

    4. Hos 7:4They 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.

    5. Hos 7:5The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him.

    6. Hos 7:6For 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.

    7. Hos 7:7All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me.

    8. Hos 7:8Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is an unturned cake.

    9. Hos 7:9Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.

    10. Hos 7:10Israel’s arrogance testifies against them, yet they do not return to the LORD their God; despite all this, they do not seek Him.

    11. Hos 7:11So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove—calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.

    12. Hos 7:12As 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.

    13. Hos 7:13Woe 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.

    14. Hos 7:14They 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.

    15. Hos 7:15Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil against Me.

    16. Hos 7:16They 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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    • 8Psalms 106:35but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
    • 8Ezra 9:12Now, therefore, do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters for your sons. Never seek their peace or prosperity, so that you may be strong and may eat the good things of the land, leaving it as an inheritance to your sons forever.’
    • 8Nehemiah 13:23–25In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
    • 1Hosea 7:13Woe 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.
    • 14Job 35:9–10Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
    • 14James 4:3And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.
    • 2Luke 12:2There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, and nothing hidden that will not be made known.
    • 8Malachi 2:11Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.
    • 8Ezra 9:1After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.
    • 3Romans 1:32Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.
    • 10Hosea 5:5Israel’s arrogance testifies against them; Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; even Judah stumbles with them.
    • 13Hosea 9:12Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe be to them when I turn away from them!
    • 14Jeremiah 3:10Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.
    • 16Psalms 78:57They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.
    • 1Micah 7:3–7Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.
    • 1Hosea 6:4What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.

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