Hosea 7

1 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

when I heal Israel, Ephraim's sins will be exposed, together with the evil actions of Samaria. They deal in lies; they are thieves who break into homes and rob people on the outside.

2 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

But they don't realize that I remember all of their wickedness. Their sins surround them and are always before me.

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

They make their king happy with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

4 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

All of them are adulterers, burning with lust like an oven whose fire stays hot, even though it is not tended by the baker, having left the dough to rise after kneading.

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

On the king's birthday the princes drink so much they are sick, while he joins in with those who mock.

6 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

Their minds are fired up like an oven; they go to him with their plots. All through the night their anger burns; in the morning it blazes out uncontrollably.

7 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

All of them are as hot as a burning oven, and they exhaust their leaders. All of their kings have fallen, and not one of them calls on me.

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

Ephraim mixes with the foreign nations; he is as useless as half-baked bread!

9 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

Foreigners drain his strength, and he doesn't even realize it. His hair is turning grey and he doesn't even notice.

10 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

Israel's pride testifies against him, but for all of this he still does not return to the Lord their God or look for him.

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

Ephraim is like a dove, foolish and without sense—calling to Egypt, then going to Assyria.

12 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

When they go I will throw my net over them; I will bring them down like wild birds. When I hear them flocking together I will punish them.

13 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

What disaster is coming to them because they have strayed from me! Destruction is coming to them because they have rebelled against me! I wish I could redeem them, but they tell lies about me.

14 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

They do not cry out to me with sincere minds; instead they lie on their beds howling. They assemble together and gash themselves to gain grain and new wine, but they turn away from me.

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

I myself trained them and made them strong, but now they plot evil against me.

16 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

They turn, but not to the Most High; they are like a useless bow. Their leaders will be killed by the sword because of their cursing. Because of this they will be ridiculed in Egypt.