| 章 |
| 7:1 |
when I would heal Israel, the corruption of E'phraim is revealed, and the wicked deeds of Sama'ria;for they deal falsely, the thief breaks in, and the bandits raid without.
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| 7:2 |
But they do not consider that I remember all their evil works. Now their deeds encompass them, they are before my face.
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| 7:3 |
By their wickedness they make the king glad, and the princes by their treachery.
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| 7:4 |
They are all adulterers;they are like a heated oven, whose baker ceases to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
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| 7:5 |
On the day of our king the princes became sick with the heat of wine;he stretched out his hand with mockers.
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| 7:6 |
For like an oven their hearts burn with intrigue;all night their anger smolders;in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
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| 7:7 |
All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen;and none of them calls upon me.
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| 7:8 |
E'phraim mixes himself with the peoples;E'phraim is a cake not turned.
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| 7:9 |
Aliens devour his strength, and he knows it not;gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, and he knows it not.
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| 7:10 |
The pride of Israel witnesses against him;yet they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him, for all this.
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| 7:11 |
E'phraim is like a dove, silly and without sense, calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.
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| 7:12 |
As they go, I will spread over them my net;I will bring them down like birds of the air;I will chastise them for their wicked deeds.
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| 7:13 |
Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me.
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| 7:14 |
They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds;for grain and wine they gash themselves, they rebel against me.
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| 7:15 |
Although I trained and strengthened their arms, yet they devise evil against me.
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| 7:16 |
They turn to Ba'al;they are like a treacherous bow, their princes shall fall by the sword because of the insolence of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
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