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## Hosea 7:1-16 in Context (Verses 1–16 KJV)
 
 [1 ](/kjv/hosea/7/1) 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 ](/kjv/hosea/7/2) 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 ](/kjv/hosea/7/3) They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
 
 [4 ](/kjv/hosea/7/4) 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 ](/kjv/hosea/7/5) In the day of our king the princes have made *him* sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.*
 
 [6 ](/kjv/hosea/7/6) 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 ](/kjv/hosea/7/7) 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 ](/kjv/hosea/7/8) Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
 
 [9 ](/kjv/hosea/7/9) Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth *it* not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.*
 
 [10 ](/kjv/hosea/7/10) 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 ](/kjv/hosea/7/11) ¶ Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
 
 [12 ](/kjv/hosea/7/12) 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 ](/kjv/hosea/7/13) 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 ](/kjv/hosea/7/14) 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 ](/kjv/hosea/7/15) Though I have bound *and* strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.*
 
 [16 ](/kjv/hosea/7/16) 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 6](/kjv/hosea/6) [Hosea 8](/kjv/hosea/8)

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