The Bible Study – Hosea Ch. 6 & 7

Hosea Ch. 6 & 7 — Isreal and Judah are Unrepentant.

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Hosea Chapters 6 & 7 Isreal and Judah are Unrepentant.

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Chapter 6

Israel and Judah Are Unrepentant

(1) “Come, let us return to the Lord;
for he has torn us, that he may heal us;
he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.
(2) After two days he will revive us;
on the third day he will raise us up,
that we may live before him.
(3) Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord;
his going out is sure as the dawn;
he will come to us as the showers,
as the spring rains that water the earth.”

(4) What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?
What shall I do with you, O Judah?
Your love is like a morning cloud,
like the dew that goes early away.
(5) Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets;
I have slain them by the words of my mouth,
and my judgment goes forth as the light.
(6) For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice,
the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

(7) But like Adam they transgressed the covenant;
there they dealt faithlessly with me.
(8) Gilead is a city of evildoers,
tracked with blood.
(9) As robbers lie in wait for a man,
so the priests band together;
they murder on the way to Shechem;
they commit villainy.
(10) In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
Ephraim’s whoredom is there; Israel is defiled.

(11) For you also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed,
when I restore the fortunes of my people.

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Chapter 7

(1)When I would heal Israel,
the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed,
and the evil deeds of Samaria;
for they deal falsely;
the thief breaks in,
and the bandits raid outside.
(2) But they do not consider
that I remember all their evil.
Now their deeds surround them;
they are before my face.
(3) By their evil they make the king glad,
and the princes by their treachery.
(4) They are all adulterers;
they are like a heated oven
whose baker ceases to stir the fire,
from the kneading of the dough
until it is leavened.
(5) On the day of our king, the princes
became sick with the heat of wine;
he stretched out his hand with mockers.
(6) For with hearts like an oven they approach their intrigue;
all night their anger smolders;
in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
(7) All of them are hot as an oven,
and they devour their rulers.
All their kings have fallen,
and none of them calls upon me.

(8) Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples;
Ephraim is a cake not turned.
(9) Strangers devour his strength,
and he knows it not;
gray hairs are sprinkled upon him,
and he knows it not.
(10) The pride of Israel testifies to his face;
yet they do not return to the Lord their God,
nor seek him, for all this.

(11) Ephraim is like a dove,
silly and without sense,
calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.
(12) As they go, I will spread over them my net;
I will bring them down like birds of the heavens;
I will discipline them according to the report made to their congregation.
(13) Woe to them, for they have strayed from me!
Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me!
I would redeem them,
but they speak lies against me.

(14) They do not cry to me from the heart,
but they wail upon their beds;
for grain and wine they gash themselves;
they rebel against me.
(15) Although I trained and strengthened their arms,
yet they devise evil against me.
(16) They return, but not upward;
they are like a treacherous bow;
their princes shall fall by the sword
because of the insolence of their tongue.
This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.