Hosea 7

1 When heal I Israel and it is revealed [the] iniquity of Ephraim and [the] evil deeds of Samaria for they do falsehood and a thief he comes it attacks a marauding band in the street.

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.

2 And not they say to heart their all evil their I remember now they have surrounded them deeds their before face my they are.

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

3 By evil their they make glad [the] king and by lies their princes.

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

4 All of them [are] adulterers like an oven burning from a baker [who] he ceases stirring up from kneading [the] dough until is leavened it.

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.

5 [the] day of King our they became sick princes fever from wine he stretched out hand his with scorners.

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

6 For they have brought near like oven heart their in ambush their all the night [is] sleeping baker their morning it [is] burning like a fire of flame.

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

7 All of them they are hot like oven and they devour rulers their all kings their they have fallen there not [is one who] calls among them to me.

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.

8 Ephraim among the peoples he he mixes himself Ephraim he has become a bread cake not turned over.

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

9 They have consumed strangers strength his and he not he knows also gray hair it has sneaked in on him and he not he knows.

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

10 And it testifies [the] pride of Israel in face its and not they have returned to Yahweh God their and not they have sought him for all this.

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.

11 And he has become Ephraim like a dove silly there not [is] heart Egypt they have called Assyria they have gone.

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

12 Just when they will go I will spread over them net my like [the] bird[s] of the heavens I will bring down them I will chasten them according to a report to assembly their.

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.

13 Woe! to them for they have fled from me devastation [belongs] to them for they have transgressed against me and I I will redeem them and they they have spoken on me lies.

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.

14 And not they have cried out to me with heart their if they wail on beds their on grain and new wine they assemble themselves they turn aside against me.

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.

15 And I I instructed [them] I strengthened arms their and against me they plot evil.

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

16 They turn - not height they have become like a bow of slackness they will fall by the sword leaders their from [the] indignation of tongue their this [will be] mockery their in [the] land of Egypt.

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.