The Book of Hosea! verse by verse...

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Hosea 6:9 (KJV) And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

 

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Hosea 6:10 (KJV) I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

 

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Hosea 6:11 (KJV) Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

 

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Hosea 7:1 (KJV) 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.

 

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Hosea 7:2 (KJV) 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.

 

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Hosea 7:3
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

 

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Hosea 7:4 (NIV) They are all adulterers, burning like an oven whose fire the baker need not stir from the kneading of the dough till it rises.

 

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Hosea 7:5 On the day of the festival of our king the princes become inflamed with wine, and he joins hands with the mockers.

 

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Hosea 7:6 (NIV) Their hearts are like an oven; they approach him with intrigue. Their passion smolders all night; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

 

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Hosea 7:7 (KJV) 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.

 

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[FONT="Palatino Linotype"Hosea 7:8

Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

 

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Hosea 7:9 Strangers have eaten up his strength, and he does not know. Yea, gray hairs are here and there on him, yet he knows it not.

 

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Hosea 7:10 (KJV) 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.

 

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Hosea 7:11 (KJV) Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

 

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Hosea 7:12 (KJV) 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.

 

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Hosea 7:13 (KJV) 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.

 

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Hosea 7:14 (KJV) 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.

 

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Hosea 7:15 (KJV) Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.

 

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Hosea 7:16 (KJV) 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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Hosea 8:1 (KJV) Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.