{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/hosea/7","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T18:32:30.207Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Hosea","bookSlug":"hosea","chapter":7,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":6,"nextChapter":8,"totalChapters":14,"totalVerses":16},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief comes in, and the troop of robbers spoils without."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceases from raising after he has kneaded the dough, until it be leavened."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleeps all the night; in the morning it burns as a flaming fire."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calls to me."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Ephraim, he has mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knows it not: yes, gray hairs are here and there on him, yet he knows not."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And the pride of Israel testifies to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"When they shall go, I will spread my net on them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Woe to them! for they have fled from me: destruction to them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And they have not cried to me with their heart, when they howled on their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt."}],"citation":{"inline":"Hosea 7 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Hosea 7](https://primebible.com/akjv/hosea/7)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/hosea/7 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}