Hosea 7

Hosea 7 in full

King James Version, 16 verses. Tap a reference to link straight to a single verse.

1. Hos 7:1

   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. Hos 7:2

   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. Hos 7:3

   They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

4. Hos 7:4

   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. Hos 7:5

   In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

6. Hos 7:6

   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. Hos 7:7

   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. Hos 7:8

   Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

9. Hos 7:9

   Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

10. Hos 7:10

    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. Hos 7:11

    Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

12. Hos 7:12

    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. Hos 7:13

    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. Hos 7:14

    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. Hos 7:15

    Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.

16. Hos 7:16

    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.

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Hosea 7 is part of Hosea, book 28 of the 66 in the King James Bible. Read the 14 chapters straight through, or search any word across all 66 books.