Thematic Bible
Hosea 7:1 (show verse)
the sins of Ephraim
will be exposed.
For they practice fraud;
a thief breaks in;
a raiding party pillages outside.
Hosea 7:2 (show verse)
Now their sins are all around them;
they are right in front of My face.
Hosea 7:3 (show verse)
the princes with their lies.
Hosea 7:4 (show verse)
they are like an oven heated by a baker
who stops stirring the fire
from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
Hosea 7:5 (show verse)
the princes are sick with the heat of wine
there is a conspiracy with traitors.
Hosea 7:6 (show verse)
draw him into their oven.
Their anger smolders all night;
in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
Hosea 7:7 (show verse)
and they consume their rulers.
All their kings fall;
not one of them calls on Me.
Hosea 7:8 (show verse)
Ephraim is unturned bread baked on a griddle.
Hosea 7:9 (show verse)
but he does not notice.
Even his hair is streaked with gray,
but he does not notice.
Hosea 7:10 (show verse)
yet they do not return to Yahweh their God,
and for all this, they do not seek Him.
Hosea 7:11 (show verse)
they call to Egypt,
Hosea 7:12 (show verse)
I will bring them down like birds of the sky.
I will discipline them in accordance
with the news that reaches
Hosea 7:13 (show verse)
destruction to them, for they rebelled against Me!
Though I want to redeem them,
they speak lies against Me.
No Themes for this verse.
Hosea 7:14 (show verse)
rather, they wail on their beds.
They slash themselves
they turn away from Me.
Hosea 7:15 (show verse)
but they plot evil against Me.
No Themes for this verse.
Hosea 7:16 (show verse)
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.