Hosea 7

1 Should I desire to heal Israel, then would the iniquity of Ephraim and the wickedness of Samaria be laid open; for they commit falsehood; and the thief entereth [secretly], and the troop of robbers is spread abroad without.

like/as to heal I to/for Israel and to reveal: reveal iniquity: crime Ephraim and distress: evil Samaria for to work deception and thief to come (in): come to strip band in/on/with outside

2 And they never think in their own heart that I remember all their wickedness: though now their own doings are all round about them; before my face are they present.

and not to say to/for heart their all distress: evil their to remember now to turn: surround them deed their before face my to be

3 With their wickedness they make the king glad, and with their lies the princes.

in/on/with distress: evil their to rejoice king and in/on/with lie their ruler

4 They are all adulterers, as an oven well heated by the baker: [when] he that stirreth [the fire] resteth awhile from kneading the dough, until it be leavened.

all their to commit adultery like oven to burn: burn from to bake to cease to rouse from to knead dough till to leaven he

5 On the day of our king's [entering on his rule] the princes are made sick with the fumes of wine: [the king] joineth his hand with scorners.

day king our be weak: ill ruler rage from wine to draw hand his with to mock

6 For they make ready their heart for their tricky deeds, like the oven, the baker whereof sleepeth all the night, while in the morning it gloweth as a flaming fire.

for to present: come like/as oven heart their in/on/with ambush their all [the] night sleeping to bake their morning he/she/it to burn: burn like/as fire flame

7 They are all hot as an oven, they devour their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.

all their to warm like/as oven and to eat [obj] to judge them all king their to fall: fall nothing to call: call to in/on/with them to(wards) me

8 Ephraim mixeth himself indeed among the nations: Ephraim is a cake not turned.

Ephraim in/on/with people he/she/it to mix Ephraim to be bun without to overturn

9 Strangers devour his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are sprinkled about on his [head], yet he knoweth not.

to eat be a stranger strength his and he/she/it not to know also greyheaded to scatter in/on/with him and he/she/it not to know

10 And humbled was the pride of Israel before his own face; but they did not return to the Lord their God, and sought him not, notwithstanding all this.

and to answer pride Israel in/on/with face his and not to return: return to(wards) LORD God their and not to seek him in/on/with all this

11 And Ephraim is become like a silly dove without understanding: Egypt did they call hither, to Assyria did they go.

and to be Ephraim like/as dove to entice nothing heart Egypt to call: call to Assyria to go: went

12 As they go, so will I spread out my net over them; as the fowls of the heaven will I bring them down: I will chastise them, as it hath been announced to their congregation.

like/as as which to go: went to spread upon them net my like/as bird [the] heaven to go down them to discipline them like/as report to/for congregation their

13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me; destruction shall come unto them, because they have transgressed against me: though I desired to redeem them, they yet spoke lies against me.

woe! to/for them for to wander from me violence to/for them for to transgress in/on/with me and I to ransom them and they(masc.) to speak: speak upon me lie

14 And they cried not unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: for corn and new wine they assemble themselves, and they rebel against me.

and not to cry out to(wards) me in/on/with heart their for to wail upon bed their upon grain and new wine to drag/chew/saw to turn aside: turn aside in/on/with me

15 And I desired to instruct and to strengthen their arms; yet would they devise evil against me.

and I to discipline to strengthen: strengthen arm their and to(wards) me to devise: devise bad: evil

16 They never return upward: they are like a deceitful bow: by the sword shall their princes fall because of the rage of their tongue; this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

to return: return not height to be like/as bow deceit to fall: kill in/on/with sword ruler their from indignation tongue their this derision their in/on/with land: country/planet Egypt