Hosea 7:16 - Prayer Tents

7when I heal Israel, the sins of Ephraim and the crimes of Samaria will be exposed. For they practice fraud; a thief breaks in; a gang pillages outside.H7495H3478H5771H669H1540H7451H8111H6466H8267H1590H935H1416H6584H2351 2But they never consider that I remember all their evil. Now their sins are all around them; they are right in front of My face.H559H3824H2142H7451H4611H5437H6440

Israel’s Corruption

3They please the king with their evil, the princes with their lies.H4428H8055H7451H8269H3585 4All of them commit adultery; [they are] like an oven heated by a baker who stops stirring [the fire] from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.H5003H8574H1197H644H7673H5782H3888H1217H2556 5On the day of our king, the princes are sick with the heat of wine— there is a conspiracy with traitors.H3117H4428H8269H2470H2534H3196H4900H3027H3945 6For they— their hearts like an oven— draw him into their oven. Their anger smolders all night; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.H7126H3820H8574H693H644H3463H3915H1242H1197H3852H784 7All of them are as hot as an oven, and they consume their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls on Me.H2552H8574H398H8199H4428H5307H7121 8Ephraim has allowed himself to get mixed up with the nations. Ephraim is unturned bread, baked on a griddle.H669H1101H5971H669H5692H2015 9Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not notice.H2114H398H3581H3045H7872H2236H3045 10Israel's arrogance testifies against them, yet they do not return to the LORD their God, and for all this, they do not seek Him.H1347H3478H6030H6440H7725H3068H430H1245 11So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove; they call to Egypt, and they go to Assyria.H669H6601H3123H3820H7121H4714H1980H804 12As they are going, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the sky. I will discipline them in accordance with the news that reaches their assembly.H3212H6566H7568H3381H5775H8064H3256H5712H8088

The Lord’s Second Lament

13Woe to them, for they fled from Me; destruction to them, for they rebelled against Me! Though I want to redeem [them], they speak lies against Me.H188H5074H7701H6586H6299H1696H3577 14They do not cry to Me from their hearts; rather, they wail on their beds. They slash themselves for grain and wine; they turn away from Me.H2199H3820H3213H4904H1481H1715H8492H5493 15I trained and strengthened their arms, but they plot evil against Me.H3256H2388H2220H2803H7451 16They turn, but not to what is above; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because of the cursing of their tongue. They will be ridiculed for this in the land of Egypt.H7725H5920H7423H7198H8269H5307H2719H2195H3956H2097H3933H776H4714