Hosea 6:11-8:10

Authorized (King James) Version

7 When 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.
² And 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.
³ They make the king glad with their wickedness,
and the princes with their lies.
⁴ They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker,
who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
⁵ In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine;
he stretched out his hand with scorners.
⁶ For 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.
⁷ They 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.
⁸ Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people;
Ephraim is a cake not turned.
⁹ Strangers have devoured his strength,
and he knoweth it not:
yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him,
yet he knoweth not.
¹⁰ And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face:
and they do not return to the Lord their God,
nor seek him for all this.

¹¹ Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart:
they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
¹² When 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.
¹³ Woe 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.
¹⁴ And 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.
¹⁵ Though I have bound and strengthened their arms,
yet do they imagine mischief against me.
¹⁶ They 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.

8 Set the trumpet to thy mouth.
He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord,
because they have transgressed my covenant,
and trespassed against my law.
² Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.
³ Israel hath cast off the thing that is good:
the enemy shall pursue him.
⁴ They have set up kings, but not by me:
they have made princes, and I knew it not:
of their silver and their gold have they made them idols,
that they may be cut off.

⁵ Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off;
mine anger is kindled against them:
how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
⁶ For from Israel was it also:
the workman made it; therefore it is not God:
but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
⁷ For they have sown the wind,
and they shall reap the whirlwind:
it hath no stalk:
the bud shall yield no meal:
if so be it yield,
the strangers shall swallow it up.
⁸ Israel is swallowed up:
now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
⁹ For they are gone up to Assyria,
a wild ass alone by himself:
Ephraim hath hired lovers.
¹⁰ Yea, though they have hired among the nations,
now will I gather them,
and they shall sorrow a little
for the burden of the king of princes.