{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Hosea",
 "chapter": 7,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "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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}