Hosea 7:1-8
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1 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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2 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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3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
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4 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.
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5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
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6 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.
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7 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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8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.