Hosea 7

1 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

“When I give healing to Israel, Then the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed, And the wickedness of Samaria, For they have worked falsehood, And a thief comes in, A troop has stripped off in the street,

2 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

And they do not say to their heart, [That] I have remembered all their evil, Now their doings have surrounded them, They have been before My face.

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

With their wickedness they make a king glad, And with their lies—princes.

4 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

All of them [are] adulterers, Like a burning oven of a baker, He ceases from stirring up after kneading the dough, until its leavening.

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

A day of our king! Princes have defiled themselves [with] the poison of wine, He has drawn out his hand with scorners.

6 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

For they have drawn near, Their heart [is] as an oven In their lying in wait—their baker sleeps all night, Morning! He is burning as a flaming fire.

7 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

All of them are warm as an oven, And they have devoured their judges, All their kings have fallen, There is none calling to Me among them.

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

Ephraim! He mixes himself among peoples, Ephraim has been an unturned cake.

9 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

Strangers have devoured his power, And he has not known, Also old age has sprinkled [itself] on him, And he has not known.

10 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

And the excellence of Israel has been humbled to his face, And they have not turned back to their God YHWH, Nor have they sought Him for all this.

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

And Ephraim is as a simple dove without heart, Egypt they called on—[to] Asshur they have gone.

12 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

When they go I spread over them My net, As the bird of the heavens I bring them down, I discipline them as their congregation has heard.

13 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

Woe to them, for they wandered from Me, Destruction to them, for they transgressed against Me, And I ransom them, and they have spoken lies against Me,

14 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

And have not cried to Me with their heart, but howl on their beds; They assemble themselves for grain and new wine, They turn aside against Me.

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

And I instructed—I strengthened their arms, And concerning Me they think evil!

16 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

They turn back—not to the Most High, They have been as a deceitful bow, Their princes fall by sword, From the insolence of their tongue, This [is] their derision in the land of Egypt!”