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Hosea 7

16 aligned verses; 16 with wording or punctuation differences .

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Verse KJV King James Version YLT Young's Literal Translation
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.
` When I give healing to Israel, Then revealed is the iniquity of Ephraim, And the wickedness of Samaria , For they have wrought falsehood , And a thief doth come in, Stript off hath a troop in the street,
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.
And they do not say to their heart, ` That ' all their evil I have remembered, Now compassed them have their doings , Over-against My face they have been .
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
With their wickedness they make glad a king , And with their lies -- princes .
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 .
All of them `are' adulterers, Like a burning oven of a baker, He ceaseth from stirring up after kneading the dough, till its leavening .
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine ; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
A day of our king ! Princes have polluted themselves ` with ' the poison of wine , He hath drawn out his hand with scorners.
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.
For they have drawn near, As an oven `is' their heart , In their lying in wait all the night sleep doth their baker, Morning ! he is burning as a flaming fire.
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.
All of them are warm as an oven, And they have devoured their judges , All their kings have fallen , There is none calling unto Me among them .
Ephraim , he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned .
Ephraim ! among peoples he mixeth himself , Ephraim hath been a cake unturned .
Strangers have devoured his strength , and he knoweth it not : yea , gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
Devoured have strangers his power , And he hath not known , Also old age hath sprinkled `itself' on him, And he hath not known .
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.
And humbled hath been the excellency of Israel to his face , And they have not turned back unto Jehovah their God, Nor have they sought Him for all this.
Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart : they call to Egypt , they go to Assyria .
And Ephraim is as a simple dove without heart, Egypt they called on -- ` to ' Asshur they have gone .
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.
When they go I spread over them My net , As the fowl of the heavens I bring them down , I chastise them as their company hath heard.
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 .
Wo to them , for they wandered from Me , Destruction to them , for they transgressed against Me , And I -- I ransom them, and they have spoken lies against 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.
And have not cried unto Me with their heart, but howl on their beds , For corn and new wine they assemble themselves , They turn aside against Me.
Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me .
And I instructed -- I strengthened their arms, And concerning Me they think evil!
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 .
They turn back -- not to the Most High , They have been as a deceitful bow , Fall by sword do their princes, From the insolence of their tongue , This `is' their derision in the land of Egypt !

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