Hosea Chapter Seven

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.

2    And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness:  now their own doing 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 LORD their God, nor seek
    him for all this.

11    Ephraim also is like a silly doe 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.

    Hosea Chapter Seven - KJV