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lewdness.
10
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there
is
the whoredom of Ephraim,
Israel is defiled.
11
Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of
my people.
CHAPTER 7
When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness
of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in,
and
the troop of robbers spoileth
without.
2
And they consider not in their hearts
that
I remember all their wickedness: now their
own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.
3
They make the king glad with their
wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
4
They
are
all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker,
who
ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
5
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 made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all
the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
7
They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured
their judges; all their kings are fallen:
there is
none among them that calleth unto me.
8
Ephraim,
he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
9
Strangers have devoured
his strength, and he knoweth
it
not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth
not.
10
And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the L
ORD
their God,
nor seek him for all this.
11
Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
12
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 unto them! for they have fled from
me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed
them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
14
And they have not cried unto me with their heart,
when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine,
and
they rebel
against me.
15
Though I have bound
and
strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief
against me.
16
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.
CHAPTER 8
Set
the trumpet to thy mouth.
He shall come
as an eagle against the house of the L
ORD
, because
they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
2
Israel shall cry unto me, My
God, we know thee.
3
Israel hath cast off
the thing that is
good: the enemy shall pursue him.
4
They
have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew
it
not: of their silver and their
gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
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