1When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside.
Hosea 7 continues the Lord's indictment against Israel, shifting from the metaphor of an unfaithful wife to a series of vivid images: a heated oven, a half-baked cake, a senseless dove. The chapter exposes the nation's internal corruption and political instability during the fina
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