Hosea 7

1 When heal I Israel and it is revealed [the] iniquity of Ephraim and [the] evil deeds of Samaria for they do falsehood and a thief he comes it attacks a marauding band in the street.

When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was disclosed, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, [and] the troop of robbers strippeth without.

2 And not they say to heart their all evil their I remember now they have surrounded them deeds their before face my they are.

And they consider not in their hearts [that] I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them around; they are before my face.

3 By evil their they make glad [the] king and by lies their princes.

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

4 All of them [are] adulterers like an oven burning from a baker [who] he ceases stirring up from kneading [the] dough until is leavened it.

They [are] all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, [who] ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it is leavened.

5 [the] day of King our they became sick princes fever from wine he stretched out hand his with scorners.

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

6 For they have brought near like oven heart their in ambush their all the night [is] sleeping baker their morning it [is] burning like a fire of flame.

For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

7 All of them they are hot like oven and they devour rulers their all kings their they have fallen there not [is one who] calls among them to 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 to me.

8 Ephraim among the peoples he he mixes himself Ephraim he has become a bread cake not turned over.

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

9 They have consumed strangers strength his and he not he knows also gray hair it has sneaked in on him and he not he knows.

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

10 And it testifies [the] pride of Israel in face its and not they have returned to Yahweh God their and not they have sought him for all this.

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 And he has become Ephraim like a dove silly there not [is] heart Egypt they have called Assyria they have gone.

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

12 Just when they will go I will spread over them net my like [the] bird[s] of the heavens I will bring down them I will chasten them according to a report to assembly their.

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 Woe! to them for they have fled from me devastation [belongs] to them for they have transgressed against me and I I will redeem them and they they have spoken on me lies.

Woe to them! for they have fled from me: destruction to them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

14 And not they have cried out to me with heart their if they wail on beds their on grain and new wine they assemble themselves they turn aside against me.

And they have not cried to me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, [and] they rebel against me.

15 And I I instructed [them] I strengthened arms their and against me they plot evil.

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

16 They turn - not height they have become like a bow of slackness they will fall by the sword leaders their from [the] indignation of tongue their this [will be] mockery their 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.