{"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/ylt/hosea/7","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T11:05:43.990Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Hosea","bookSlug":"hosea","chapter":7,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":6,"nextChapter":8,"totalChapters":14,"totalVerses":16},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"'When I give healing to Israel, Then revealed is the iniquity of Ephraim, And the wickedness of Samaria, For they have wrought falsehood, And a thief doth come in, Stript off hath a troop in the street,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"And they do not say to their heart, That all their evil I have remembered, Now compassed them have their doings, Over-against My face they have been."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies — princes."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"All of them are adulterers, Like a burning oven of a baker, He ceaseth from stirring up after kneading the dough, till its leavening."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"A day of our king! Princes have polluted themselves with the poison of wine, He hath drawn out his hand with scorners."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For they have drawn near, As an oven is their heart, In their lying in wait all the night sleep doth their baker, Morning! he is burning as a flaming fire."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"All of them are warm as an oven, And they have devoured their judges, All their kings have fallen, There is none calling unto Me among them."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Ephraim! among peoples he mixeth himself, Ephraim hath been a cake unturned."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Devoured have strangers his power, And he hath not known, Also old age hath sprinkled itself on him, And he hath not known."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And humbled hath been the excellency of Israel to his face, And they have not turned back unto Jehovah their God, Nor have they sought Him for all this."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And Ephraim is as a simple dove without heart, Egypt they called on — to Asshur they have gone."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"When they go I spread over them My net, As the fowl of the heavens I bring them down, I chastise them as their company hath heard."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Woe to them, for they wandered from Me, Destruction to them, for they transgressed against Me, And I — I ransom them, and they have spoken lies against Me,"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And have not cried unto Me with their heart, but howl on their beds, For corn and new wine they assemble themselves, They turn aside against Me."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"And I instructed — I strengthened their arms, And concerning Me they think evil!"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"They turn back — not to the Most High, They have been as a deceitful bow, Fall by sword do their princes, From the insolence of their tongue, This is their derision in the land of Egypt!"}],"citation":{"inline":"Hosea 7 (YLT)","markdown":"[Hosea 7](https://primebible.com/ylt/hosea/7)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/hosea/7 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}