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Hosea
Chapter 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 comes in,
and
the troop of robbers spoils outside.
2a
And they consider not in their hearts/'right lobes'
that
I remember all their wickedness.
{Note: God remembers all sins until the believer rebounds their sins. Only then does He 'forgive and forget' their sin. Suffering for discipline then ends or turns into suffering for advancement.}
2b Now their own doings 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
ceases from raising
after
he has 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/'right lobe'
like
an oven,
while
they lie in wait.
Their baker sleeps all the night.
In the morning it burns 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 who call unto Me.
8 Ephraim, he has mixed himself among the people.
Ephraim is a cake not turned.
9
Strangers have devoured his strength,
and
he knows it not.
Yes,
gray hairs are here and there upon him,
yet
he knows not.
10 And the pride of Israel testifies to his face.
And
they do not return to Jehovah/God their 'Elohiym/Godhead,
nor
seek Him for all this.
11
Ephraim also is like a silly dove 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 has 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.
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