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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.