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Hosea 7

16 aligned verses; 16 with wording or punctuation differences .

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When 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 .
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 .
But 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.
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.
They delight the king with their evil , and the princes with their lies.
They make the king glad with their wickedness , and the princes with their lies.
They 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.
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 .
The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him .
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine ; he stretched out his hand with scorners .
For 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.
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.
All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me.
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.
Ephraim mixes with the nations ; Ephraim is an unturned cake.
Ephraim , he hath mixed himself among the people ; Ephraim is a cake not turned .
Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know .
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not : yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him , yet he knoweth not.
Israel’s arrogance testifies against them, yet they do not return to the LORD their God ; despite all this , they do not seek Him.
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 .
So Ephraim has become like a silly , senseless dove calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.
Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
As 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 .
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 .
Woe 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.
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.
They 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.
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.
Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil against Me.
Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
They 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.
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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