1When I was about to deliver my people from captivity, When I would have healed Israel, Then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, And the wickedness of Samaria; For they practise fraud, And the thief entereth in, And the band of robbers spoileth without.

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Hosea 7:13, Hosea 7:13, Hosea 6:4, Micah 7:3, Micah 7:7

2And they think not in their hearts, That I remember all their wickedness. Now shall their doings encompass them; They are before my face.

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Psalms 90:8, Luke 12:2, Psalms 90:8, Luke 12:2, Amos 8:7

3With their wickedness they gladden the king, And with their falsehoods the princes; All of them are adulterers;

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Romans 1:32, Micah 7:3, Romans 1:32, Micah 7:3, Jeremiah 28:1

4They are as an oven heated by the baker; He ceaseth to stir the fire, Until the dough which he hath kneaded be leavened.

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Jeremiah 9:2, Jeremiah 9:2, Hosea 4:2, Hosea 4:12, Hosea 7:6

5On the feast-day of our king, the princes are sick with the heat of wine, And he stretcheth out his hand with revilers.

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Isaiah 28:1, Isaiah 28:1, Proverbs 13:20, Habakkuk 2:15, Habakkuk 2:16

6For they make ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait; All night the baker sleepeth; In the morning it gloweth like a flaming fire.

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Psalms 10:8, Psalms 10:9, Hosea 7:4, Hosea 7:7, 2 Samuel 13:28

7They all glow as an oven; They have devoured their judges; All their kings have fallen; And none among them calleth upon me.

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2 Kings 15:30, 2 Kings 15:14, 2 Kings 15:10, 2 Kings 15:25, 2 Kings 15:30

8Ephraim hath mixed himself with the nations; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

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Psalms 106:35, Psalms 106:35, Ezra 9:12, Nehemiah 13:23, Nehemiah 13:25

9Strangers have devoured his strength, And he knoweth it not; Yea, gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, Yet he knoweth it not.

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Hosea 8:7, Hosea 8:7, Isaiah 42:22, Isaiah 42:25, Isaiah 42:22

10The pride of Israel testifieth to his face; Yet do not they return to Jehovah their God, Nor seek him, for all this.

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Hosea 5:5, Hosea 5:5, Isaiah 9:13, Isaiah 9:13, Amos 4:6

11Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding; They call upon Egypt; they go to Assyria.

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Hosea 12:1, Hosea 5:13, Hosea 12:1, Hosea 5:13, Hosea 4:11

12When they go, I will spread my net over them; As birds of heaven will I bring them down. I will chastise them, as hath been proclaimed in their congregation.

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Ezekiel 12:13, Ezekiel 12:13, Deuteronomy 28:15, Deuteronomy 28:68, Deuteronomy 28:15

13Woe to them, for they have wandered from me! Destruction upon them, for they have rebelled against me! Though I myself would redeem them, they speak falsely to me.

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Hosea 9:12, Hosea 9:12, Hosea 11:12, Hosea 11:12, Jeremiah 14:10

14They cry not to me from their heart, But howl upon their beds; For corn and wine they assemble themselves; They rebel against me.

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James 4:3, Job 35:9, Job 35:10, James 4:3, Job 35:9

15I have chastened them; I have also strengthened their arms; Yet do they devise evil against me.

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Nahum 1:9, Nahum 1:9, Hebrews 12:5, Psalms 2:1, Psalms 106:43

16They return, but not to the Most High; They are like a deceitful bow; Their princes shall fall by the sword for the haughtiness of their tongues; This shall be their reproach in the land of Egypt.

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Hosea 9:3, Psalms 78:57, Hosea 9:3, Psalms 78:57, Psalms 73:9