Hosea 7:7-16 (New Revised Standard)
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7
All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen; none of them calls upon me.
8
Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
9
Foreigners devour his strength, but he does not know it; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, but he does not know it.
10
Israel's pride testifies against a him; yet they do not return to the Lord their God, or seek him, for all this.
11
Ephraim has become like a dove, silly and without sense; they call upon Egypt, they go to Assyria.
12
As they go, I will cast my net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the air; I will discipline them according to the report made to their assembly. b
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.
14
They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; they gash themselves for grain and wine; they rebel against me.
15
It was I who trained and strengthened their arms, yet they plot evil against me.
16
They turn to that which does not profit; c they have become like a defective bow; their officials shall fall by the sword because of the rage of their tongue. So much for their babbling in the land of Egypt.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New Revised Standard Bible Version Online)
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