Hosea 7

1 when I would heal Israel, then Ephrain’s guilt is revealed, and Samaria’s crimes are seen, how they practise fraud and the thief enters in, while outside bandits plunder.

like/as to heal I to/for Israel and to reveal: reveal iniquity: crime Ephraim and distress: evil Samaria for to work deception and thief to come (in): come to strip band in/on/with outside

2 But it never crosses their minds that I remember their wickedness. Now their misdeeds surround them, they are always before my face.

and not to say to/for heart their all distress: evil their to remember now to turn: surround them deed their before face my to be

3 Their wickedness amuses the king, and their lying gladdens the princes,

in/on/with distress: evil their to rejoice king and in/on/with lie their ruler

4 since they are all of them adulterers. Their desire to do evil burns like an oven heated by the baker, so hot that he need not stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough, until it rises.

all their to commit adultery like oven to burn: burn from to bake to cease to rouse from to knead dough till to leaven he

5 On our king’s festival day, the princes are flushed with fever from wine. He stretched forth his hand with the contemptuous,

day king our be weak: ill ruler rage from wine to draw hand his with to mock

6 for like an oven their heart burns with treachery, all night their anger smoulders, in the morning it blazes into a flame of fire.

for to present: come like/as oven heart their in/on/with ambush their all [the] night sleeping to bake their morning he/she/it to burn: burn like/as fire flame

7 All of them glow like an oven, they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen. There is none among them who calls to me.

all their to warm like/as oven and to eat [obj] to judge them all king their to fall: fall nothing to call: call to in/on/with them to(wards) me

8 Ephraim – he lets himself be mixed among the peoples, Ephraim – he has become a cake unturned.

Ephraim in/on/with people he/she/it to mix Ephraim to be bun without to overturn

9 Strangers have devoured his strength, but he does not know it. His hair is sprinkled with grey, but he does not notice.

to eat be a stranger strength his and he/she/it not to know also greyheaded to scatter in/on/with him and he/she/it not to know

10 Israel’s arrogance testifies against them yet they do not return to the Lord their God, and in all this they do not seek him.

and to answer pride Israel in/on/with face his and not to return: return to(wards) LORD God their and not to seek him in/on/with all this

11 Ephraim is like a simple, silly dove: to Egypt they call, after Assyria they go,

and to be Ephraim like/as dove to entice nothing heart Egypt to call: call to Assyria to go: went

12 wherever they turn I will spread my net over them, like birds of the sky I will bring them down, I will catch them when I hear them gathering.

like/as as which to go: went to spread upon them net my like/as bird [the] heaven to go down them to discipline them like/as report to/for congregation their

13 Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have been untrue to me. Although it was I who redeemed them, they speak lies about me.

woe! to/for them for to wander from me violence to/for them for to transgress in/on/with me and I to ransom them and they(masc.) to speak: speak upon me lie

14 They have never cried to me with their hearts, but they are always wailing on their beds. They gather to beg for corn and new wine, but they turn away from me.

and not to cry out to(wards) me in/on/with heart their for to wail upon bed their upon grain and new wine to drag/chew/saw to turn aside: turn aside in/on/with me

15 Although it was I who trained and strengthened their arms, concerning me they plan only evil.

and I to discipline to strengthen: strengthen arm their and to(wards) me to devise: devise bad: evil

16 They turn away from the Most High. They have become like a bow that swerves. Their princes will fall by the sword, because of the insolence of their tongues. The land of Egypt will mock them.

to return: return not height to be like/as bow deceit to fall: kill in/on/with sword ruler their from indignation tongue their this derision their in/on/with land: country/planet Egypt