The Old Testament
| Book | Chapter | Verse | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 unto me. | |
| Hosea | 7 | (8) Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. | |
| Hosea | 7 | (9) Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. | |
| Hosea | 7 | (10) And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this. | |
| Hosea | 7 | (11) Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. | |
| Hosea | 7 | (12) When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard. | |
| Hosea | 7 | (13) Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me. | |
| Hosea | 7 | (14) And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me. | |
| Hosea | 7 | (15) Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me. | |
| Hosea | 7 | (16) 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. | |
| Hosea | 8 | (1) SET THE trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. | |
| Hosea | 8 | (2) Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee. | |
| Hosea | 8 | (3) Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. | |
| Hosea | 8 | (4) They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. | |
| Hosea | 8 | (5) Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency? | |
| Hosea | 8 | (6) For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces. | |
| Hosea | 8 | (7) For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up. | |
| Hosea | 8 | (8) Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure. | |
| Hosea | 8 | (9) For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers. | |