Hosea · Bible in Basic English
Hosea 7 Bible in Basic English
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Hosea is not in PT1904.
1 When my desire was for the fate of my people to be changed and to make Israel well, then the sin of Ephraim was made clear, and the evil-doing of Samaria; for their ways are false, and the thief comes into the house, while the band of outlaws takes property by force in the streets.
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2 And they do not say to themselves that I keep in mind all their sin; now their evil acts come round them on every side; they are before my face.
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3 In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.
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4 They are all untrue; they are like a burning oven; the bread-maker does not make up the fire from the time when the paste is mixed till it is leavened.
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5 On the day of our king, the rulers made him ill with the heat of wine; his hand was stretched out with the men of pride.
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6 For they have made their hearts ready like an oven, while they are waiting secretly; their wrath is sleeping all night; in the morning it is burning like a flaming fire.
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7 They are all heated like an oven, and they put an end to their judges; all their kings have been made low; not one among them makes prayer to me.
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8 Ephraim is mixed with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
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9 Men from other lands have made waste his strength, and he is not conscious of it; grey hairs have come on him here and there, and he has no knowledge of it.
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10 And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; but for all this, they have not gone back to the Lord their God, or made search for him.
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11 And Ephraim is like a foolish dove, without wisdom; they send out their cry to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
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12 When they go, my net will be stretched out over them; I will take them like the birds of heaven, I will give them punishment, I will take them away in the net for their sin.
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13 May trouble be theirs! for they have gone far away from me; and destruction, for they have been sinning against me; I was ready to be their saviour, but they said false words against me.
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14 And they have not made prayer to me in their hearts, but they make loud cries on their beds; they are cutting themselves for food and wine, they are turned against me.
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15 Though I have given training and strength to their arms, they have evil designs against me.
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16 They have gone to what is of no value; they are like a false bow; their captains will come to destruction by the sword, and their ruler by my wrath; for this, the land of Egypt will make sport of them.
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Cross references (16)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Hosea 7:13; Micah 7:3–7; Hosea 6:4; Luke 13:34; Jeremiah 9:2–6
- 2 Luke 12:2; Jeremiah 14:10; Jeremiah 2:19; Amos 8:7; Psalm 90:8
- 3 Romans 1:32; Micah 7:3; Jeremiah 28:1–4; Amos 7:10–13; Jeremiah 5:31
- 4 Jeremiah 9:2; James 4:4; Jeremiah 5:7–8; Hosea 4:2; Hosea 7:6–7
- 5 1 Peter 4:3–4; Isaiah 28:1; Psalm 1:1; Ephesians 5:18; Daniel 5:23
- 6 Micah 2:1; Psalm 10:8–9; Hosea 7:4; Hosea 7:7; Proverbs 4:16
- 7 2 Kings 15:10; 2 Kings 15:25; 2 Kings 15:14; 2 Kings 15:30; Isaiah 9:13
- 8 Psalm 106:35; Ezra 9:12; Nehemiah 13:23–25; Ezra 9:1; Malachi 2:11
- 9 Hosea 8:7; Isaiah 42:22–25; Proverbs 23:35; 2 Kings 13:3–7; Isaiah 1:7
- 10 Hosea 5:5; Isaiah 9:13; Amos 4:6–13; Psalm 53:2; Romans 3:11
- 11 Hosea 5:13; Hosea 12:1; Hosea 4:11; Hosea 11:11; Jeremiah 2:18
- 12 Ezekiel 12:13; Deuteronomy 28:15–68; Deuteronomy 29:22–28; Ezekiel 32:3; Ecclesiastes 9:12
- 13 Hosea 9:12; Matthew 23:13–29; Hosea 11:12; Lamentations 5:16; Hosea 7:1
- 14 James 4:3; Job 35:9–10; Jeremiah 3:10; Psalm 78:34–37; Zechariah 7:5
- 15 Nahum 1:9; Psalm 94:12; 2 Kings 13:23; Psalm 62:3; Job 5:17
- 16 Psalm 78:57; Hosea 9:3; Psalm 73:9; Ezekiel 23:32; Matthew 12:36
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences