Hosea 7

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 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.	1 When I would bring about the restoration of my people, when I would heal Israel, The guilt of Ephraim stands out, the wickedness of Samaria; They practice falsehood, thieves break in, bandits plunder abroad.
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.	2 Yet they do not remind themselves that I remember all their wickedness. Even now their crimes surround them, present to my sight.
3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.	3 In their wickedness they regale the king, the princes too, with their deceits.
4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneeded the dough, until it be leavened.	4 They are all kindled to wrath like a blazing oven, Whose fire the baker desists from stirring once the dough is kneaded until it has risen.
5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.	5 On the day of our king, the princes are overcome with the heat of wine. He extends his hand among dissemblers;
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.	6 the plotters approach with hearts like ovens. All the night their anger sleeps; in the morning it flares like a blazing 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.	7 They are all heated like ovens, and consume their rulers. All their kings have fallen; none of them calls upon me.
8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.	8 Ephraim mingles with the nations, Ephraim is a hearth cake unturned.
9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.	9 Strangers have sapped his strength, but he takes no notice of it; Of gray hairs, too, there is a sprinkling, but he takes no notice of it.
10 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.	10 The arrogance of Israel bears witness against him; yet they do not return to the LORD, their God, nor seek him, for all that.
11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.	11 Ephraim is like a dove, silly and senseless; They call upon 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.	12 Even as they go I will spread my net around them, like birds in the air I will bring them down. In an instant I will send them captive from their land.
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.	13 Woe to them, they have strayed from me! Ruin to them, they have sinned against me! Though I wished to redeem them, they spoke 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.	14 They have not cried to me from their hearts when they wailed upon their beds; For wheat and wine they lacerated themselves, while they rebelled against me.
15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.	15 Though I trained and strengthened their arms, yet they devised evil 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.	16 They have again become useless, like a treacherous bow. Their princes shall fall by the sword because of the insolence of their tongues; thus they shall be mocked in the land of Egypt.