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DECEMBER 8
10 And the pride of Israel testifies to his
December 8 face,
But they do not return to the LORD
their God,
Nor seek Him for all this.
Hosea 7:1–8:14
11 “Ephraim also is like a silly dove,
7 “When I would have healed without sense—
Israel,
Then the iniquity of Ephraim was They call to Egypt,
They go to Assyria.
uncovered,
12 Wherever they go, I will spread My net
And the wickedness of Samaria. on them;
For they have committed fraud;
A thief comes in; I will bring them down like birds
A band of robbers takes spoil outside. of the air;
2 They do not consider in their hearts I will chastise them
That I remember all their wickedness; According to what their congregation
Now their own deeds have surrounded has heard.
them; 13 “Woe to them, for they have fled from Me!
They are before My face. Destruction to them,
3 They make a king glad with their Because they have transgressed
wickedness, against Me!
And princes with their lies. Though I redeemed them,
4 “They are all adulterers. Yet they have spoken lies against Me.
Like an oven heated by a baker— 14 They did not cry out to Me with
He ceases stirring the fire after their heart
kneading the dough, When they wailed upon their beds.
Until it is leavened.
5 In the day of our king “They assemble together for grain
Princes have made him sick, inflamed and new wine,
with wine; They rebel against Me;
15 Though I disciplined and strengthened
He stretched out his hand with scoffers.
They prepare their heart like an oven,
6 their arms,
While they lie in wait; 16 Yet they devise evil against Me;
Their baker sleeps all night; They return, but not to the Most High;
In the morning it burns like a flaming They are like a treacherous bow.
fire. Their princes shall fall by the sword
They are all hot, like an oven,
7 For the cursings of their tongue.
And have devoured their judges; This shall be their derision in the land
All their kings have fallen. of Egypt.
None among them calls upon Me. “Set the trumpet to your mouth!
“Ephraim has mixed himself among
8 8 He shall come like an eagle against
the peoples; the house of the LORD,
Ephraim is a cake unturned. Because they have transgressed
Aliens have devoured his strength, My covenant
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But he does not know it; And rebelled against My law.
Yes, gray hairs are here and there 2 Israel will cry to Me,
on him, ‘My God, we know You!’
Yet he does not know it. 3 Israel has rejected the good;
The enemy will pursue him.
“They set up kings, but not by Me;
4
They made princes, but I did not
7:4–7 The civil leaders’evil lust burned so pas-
sionately all night,that the prophet repeatedly acknowledge them.
described it like a consuming oven (vv. 4,6,7), From their silver and gold
so hot that the baker could forego stirring the They made idols for themselves—
fire during the entire night and still have ade- That they might be cut off.
quate heat for baking the next morning. 5 Your calf is rejected, O Samaria!
My anger is aroused against them—

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