Hosea 7 (NET)

Hosea 7:1¹whenever I want to heal Israel, the sin of Ephraim is revealed, and the evil deeds of Samaria are exposed. For they do what is wrong; thieves break into houses, and gangs rob people out in the streets.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 7:13Hos 6:4Mic 7:3-7Hos 4:2Jer 9:2-6Luke 13:34Luke 19:42Matt 23:37Amos 8:14Ezek 16:46

Hosea 7:2²They do not realize that I remember all their wicked deeds. Their evil deeds have now surrounded them; their sinful deeds are always before me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 12:2Amos 8:7Jer 14:10Jer 2:19Ps 90:81 Cor 4:5Heb 4:13Hos 9:9Isa 5:12Jer 16:17

Hosea 7:3³The royal advisers delight the king with their evil schemes, the princes make him glad with their lies.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 1:32Mic 7:3Jer 28:1-41 John 4:51 Kgs 22:131 Kgs 22:6Amos 7:10-13Hos 4:2Hos 5:11Hos 7:5

Hosea 7:4⁴They are all like bakers, they are like a smoldering oven; they are like a baker who does not stoke the fire until the kneaded dough is ready for baking.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 9:2Jas 4:4Jer 5:7-8Hos 4:12Hos 4:2Hos 7:6-7

Hosea 7:5⁵At the celebration of their king, his princes become inflamed with wine; they conspire with evildoers.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 4:3-4Dan 5:23Eph 5:18Gen 40:20Isa 28:1Ps 1:1Ps 69:121 Kgs 13:4Dan 5:1-4Hab 2:15-16

Hosea 7:6⁶They approach him, all the while plotting against him. Their hearts are like an oven; their anger smolders all night long, but in the morning it bursts into a flaming fire.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mic 2:1Ps 10:8-91 Sam 19:11-152 Sam 13:28-29Hos 7:4Hos 7:7Prov 4:16Ps 21:9

Hosea 7:7⁷All of them are blazing like an oven; they devour their rulers. All their kings fall, and none of them call on me!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 15:102 Kgs 15:142 Kgs 15:252 Kgs 15:30Hos 7:10Hos 8:4Isa 43:22Isa 64:7Isa 9:13Job 36:13

Hosea 7:8⁸Ephraim has mixed itself like flour among the nations; Ephraim is like a ruined cake of bread that is scorched on one side.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 106:35Ezra 9:12Neh 13:23-25Ezra 9:1Mal 2:111 Kgs 18:21Hos 5:13Hos 5:7Hos 8:2-4Hos 9:3

Hosea 7:9⁹Foreigners are consuming what his strenuous labor produced, but he does not recognize it. His head is filled with gray hair, but he does not realize it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 8:7Isa 42:22-252 Kgs 13:222 Kgs 13:3-7Isa 1:7Prov 23:352 Kgs 15:19Isa 57:1

Hosea 7:10¹⁰The arrogance of Israel testifies against him, yet they refuse to return to the Lord their God. In spite of all this they refuse to seek him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 5:5Isa 9:13Amos 4:6-13Ps 53:2Hos 6:1Hos 7:7Jer 25:5-7Jer 3:3Jer 35:15-17Jer 8:5-6

Hosea 7:11¹¹Ephraim has been like a dove, easily deceived and lacking discernment. They called to Egypt for help; they turned to Assyria for protection.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 12:1Hos 5:13Hos 11:11Hos 4:11Jer 2:18Hos 9:3Prov 6:322 Kgs 15:192 Kgs 17:3-4Ezek 23:4-8

Hosea 7:12¹²I will throw my bird net over them while they are flying; I will bring them down like birds in the sky; I will discipline them when I hear them flocking together.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 12:13Deut 28:15-68Deut 29:22-282 Kgs 17:13-18Deut 31:16-29Deut 32:15-43Eccl 9:12Ezek 17:20Ezek 32:3Jer 16:16

Hosea 7:13¹³Woe to them! For they have fled from me! Destruction to them! For they have rebelled against me! I want to deliver them, but they have lied to me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 9:12Hos 11:12Lam 5:16Matt 23:13-291 John 1:101 Pet 1:18-19Deut 15:15Ezek 16:23Ezek 18:2Ezek 18:25

Hosea 7:14¹⁴They do not pray to me, but howl in distress on their beds; they slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 4:3Job 35:9-10Jer 3:10Ps 78:34-37Amos 2:8Isa 29:13Mic 2:11Phil 3:19Zech 7:5Isa 65:14

Hosea 7:15¹⁵Although I trained and strengthened them, they plot evil against me!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Nah 1:9Ps 94:122 Cor 10:52 Kgs 13:232 Kgs 14:25-27Acts 4:25Heb 12:5Jer 17:9Job 5:17Prov 3:11

Hosea 7:16¹⁶They turn to Baal; they are like an unreliable bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because their prayers to Baal have made me angry. So people will disdain them in the land of Egypt.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 78:57Hos 9:3Ezek 23:32Ps 73:9Hos 9:6Matt 12:36Ps 12:42 Pet 2:8Ezek 36:20Hos 11:7