Hosea 6:11-Hosea 7:16 - Ephraim's Guilt

¹¹ A harvest is also appointed for you, Judah.

When I return My people from captivity,

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¹ when I heal Israel,
the sins of Ephraim and the crimes of Samaria
will be exposed.
For they practice fraud;
a thief breaks in;
a raiding party pillages outside.
² But they never consider that I remember all their evil.
Now their sins are all around them;
they are right in front of My face.

³ They please the king with their evil,
the princes with their lies.
⁴ All of them commit adultery;
they are like an oven heated by a baker
who stops stirring the fire
from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
⁵ On the day of our king,
the princes are sick with the heat of wine—
there is a conspiracy with traitors.
⁶ For they—their hearts like an oven—
draw him into their oven.
Their anger smolders all night;
in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
⁷ All of them are as hot as an oven,
and they consume their rulers.
All their kings fall;
not one of them calls on Me.

⁸ Ephraim has allowed himself to get mixed up with the nations.
Ephraim is unturned bread baked on a griddle.
⁹ Foreigners consume his strength,
but he does not notice.
Even his hair is streaked with gray,
but he does not notice.
¹⁰ Israel’s arrogance testifies against them,
yet they do not return to Yahweh their God,
and for all this, they do not seek Him.

¹¹ So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove;
they call to Egypt, and they go to Assyria.
¹² As they are going, I will spread My net over them;
I will bring them down like birds of the sky.
I will discipline them in accordance
with the news that reaches their assembly.

¹³ Woe to them, for they fled from Me;
destruction to them, for they rebelled against Me!
Though I want to redeem them,
they speak lies against Me.
¹⁴ They do not cry to Me from their hearts;
rather, they wail on their beds.
They slash themselves for grain and new wine;
they turn away from Me.
¹⁵ I trained and strengthened their arms,
but they plot evil against Me.
¹⁶ They turn, but not to what is above;
they are like a faulty bow.
Their leaders will fall by the sword
because of the cursing of their tongue.
They will be ridiculed for this in the land of Egypt.