Hosea 7
7
1when I heal Israel, # Ezk 24:13; Hs 6:4; 7:13; 11:8
the sins of Ephraim # Hs 5:3 and the crimes of Samaria # Hs 8:5-6; 10:5,7; 13:16
will be exposed.
For they practice fraud; # Hs 4:2
a thief breaks in;
a raiding party pillages outside. # Hs 6:9
2But they never consider that I remember all their evil. # Ps 25:7; Jr 14:10; 17:1; Am 8:7
Now their sins are all around them; # Jr 2:19; 4:18; Hs 4:9
they are right in front of My face.
Israel’s Corruption
3They please the king with their evil, # Jr 28:1-4; Mc 7:3
the princes with their lies. # Hs 4:2; 11:12
4All of them commit adultery; # Jr 9:2; 23:10
they are like an oven heated by a baker
who stops stirring the fire
from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
5On the day of our king,
the princes are sick with the heat of wine # Is 28:1,7-8 —
there is a conspiracy with traitors. # Lit wine — he stretches out his hand to scorners ; Hb obscure
6For they — their hearts like an oven —
draw him into their oven.
Their anger smolders all night;
in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
7All of them are as hot as an oven, # Ps 21:9
and they consume their rulers. # Hs 13:10
All their kings fall;
not one of them calls on Me. # These vv. may refer to a king’s assassination; Hb obscure.
8Ephraim has allowed himself to get mixed up with the nations.
Ephraim is unturned bread baked on a griddle.
9Foreigners consume his strength, # Is 1:7
but he does not notice. # Hs 4:6
Even his hair is streaked with gray,
but he does not notice.
10Israel’s arrogance testifies against them, # Lit against his face # Hs 5:5
yet they do not return to Yahweh their God, # Hs 5:4
and for all this, they do not seek Him.
11So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove; # Hs 4:6,11,14; 5:4
they call to Egypt, # Hs 8:13; 9:3,6 and they go to Assyria. # Hs 5:13; 8:9; 12:1
12As they are going, I will spread My net over them; # Ezk 12:13
I will bring them down like birds of the sky.
I will discipline them in accordance
with the news that reaches # Lit news to their assembly.
The Lord’s Second Lament
13Woe to them, # Hs 9:12 for they fled from Me; # Jr 14:10; Hs 9:17
destruction to them, for they rebelled against Me!
Though I want to redeem them, # Jr 51:9; Hs 7:1; Mt 23:37
they speak lies against Me.
14They do not cry to Me from their hearts;
rather, they wail on their beds.
They slash themselves # Some Hb mss, LXX; other Hb mss read They stay # 1Kg 18:28 for grain and new wine; # Am 2:8
they turn away from Me.
15I trained and strengthened their arms, # Hs 11:3
but they plot evil against Me. # Nah 1:9
16They turn, but not to what is above; # Some emend to turn to what is useless
they are like a faulty bow. # Ps 78:57
Their leaders will fall by the sword
because of the cursing of their tongue. # Ps 12:3-4; 17:10; Dn 7:25; Mal 3:13-14
They will be ridiculed for this in the land of Egypt. # Ezk 23:32
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Hosea 7
7
1“Whenever I want to heal my people Israel and make them prosperous again, all I can see is their wickedness and the evil they do. They cheat one another; they break into houses and steal; they rob people in the streets. 2It never enters their heads that I will remember all this evil; but their sins surround them, and I cannot avoid seeing them.”
Conspiracy in the Palace
3The LORD says, “People deceive the king and his officers by their evil plots. 4They are all treacherous and disloyal. Their hatred smoulders like the fire in an oven, which is not stirred by the baker until the dough is ready to bake. 5On the day of the king's celebration they made the king and his officials drunk and foolish with wine. 6Yes, they burned#7.6 One ancient translation burned; Hebrew drew near. like an oven with their plotting. All night their anger smouldered, and in the morning it burst into flames.
7“In the heat of their anger they murdered their rulers. Their kings have been assassinated one after another, but no one prays to me for help.”
Israel and the Nations
8The LORD says, “The people of Israel are like a half-baked loaf of bread. They rely on the nations around them 9and do not realize that this reliance on foreigners has robbed them of their strength. Their days are numbered, but they don't even know it. 10The arrogance of the people of Israel cries out against them. In spite of everything that has happened, they have not returned to me, the LORD their God. 11Israel flits about like a silly pigeon; first her people call on Egypt for help, and then they run to Assyria! 12But I will spread out a net and catch them like birds as they go by. I will punish them for the evil they have done.#7.12 Probable text the evil they have done; Hebrew the report to their congregation.
13“They are doomed! They have left me and rebelled against me. They will be destroyed. I wanted to save them, but their worship of me was false. 14They have not prayed to me sincerely, but instead they throw themselves down and wail as the heathen do. When they pray for corn and wine, they gash themselves like pagans. What rebels they are! 15Even though I was the one who brought them up and made them strong, they plotted against me. 16They keep on turning away from me to a god that is powerless.#7.16 Probable text a god… powerless; Hebrew unclear. They are as unreliable as a crooked bow. Because their leaders talk arrogantly, they will die a violent death, and the Egyptians will laugh.”
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