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Hosea 7:2 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" 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. "
Hosea 7:2
Verse in Context
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1 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 cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.
2 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.
3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
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Hosea 7:1
"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 cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without."
Hosea 7:3
"They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies."
Hosea 7:4
"They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened."
Hosea 7:5
"In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners."
Hosea 7:6
"For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire."
Hosea 7:7
"They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth"
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