# Hosea 7

- Translation: Berean Standard Bible
- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/hosea/7
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).

## Text

[1] 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. [2] 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. [3] They delight the king with their evil,
and the princes with their lies. [4] 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. [5] The princes are inflamed with wine
on the day of our king;
so he joins hands
with those who mock him. [6] 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. [7] All of them are hot as an oven,
and they devour their rulers.
All their kings fall;
not one of them calls upon Me. [8] Ephraim mixes with the nations;
Ephraim is an unturned cake. [9] Foreigners consume his strength,
but he does not notice.
Even his hair is streaked with gray,
but he does not know. [10] Israel’s arrogance testifies against them,
yet they do not return to the LORD their God;
despite all this, they do not seek Him. [11] So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove—
calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria. [12] 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. [13] 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. [14] 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. [15] Although I trained and strengthened their arms,
they plot evil against Me. [16] 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.

## Places in this chapter

- **Samaria** (Samaria · today Sebastia) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/samaria
- **Assyria** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/assyria
- **Egypt** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/egypt

## Each verse

- Hosea 7:1 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/hosea/7/1
- Hosea 7:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/hosea/7/2
- Hosea 7:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/hosea/7/3
- Hosea 7:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/hosea/7/4
- Hosea 7:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/hosea/7/5
- Hosea 7:6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/hosea/7/6
- Hosea 7:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/hosea/7/7
- Hosea 7:8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/hosea/7/8
- Hosea 7:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/hosea/7/9
- Hosea 7:10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/hosea/7/10
- Hosea 7:11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/hosea/7/11
- Hosea 7:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/hosea/7/12
- Hosea 7:13 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/hosea/7/13
- Hosea 7:14 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/hosea/7/14
- Hosea 7:15 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/hosea/7/15
- Hosea 7:16 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/hosea/7/16