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Hosea 7:1–7 – Heated sin and collapsing kings

What happens: When God would heal, Israel’s sin appears. Leaders plot like a hot oven, commit adultery, and make the king drunk; their rulers fall and none seeks the Lord.

What it means: Hidden fire burns a nation from within. God’s holiness exposes schemes, and human power fails when hearts refuse Him.

Hosea 7:8–12 – Mixed loyalties and foolish flight

What happens: Ephraim mixes with the nations and is like a cake not turned. Strength fades like unnoticed gray hair. They call to Egypt and go to Assyria. God will spread a net and bring them down for their lies.

What it means: Compromise leaves us half-baked and weak. Trust in worldly saviors insults God’s lordship and leads to capture.

Hosea 7:13–16 – Empty cries and a false bow

What happens: Woe to them for straying. They do not cry to God from the heart but wail on their beds and turn to idols. They are like a faulty bow; their leaders fall by the sword because of their insolent words.

What it means: Sorrow without repentance brings no help. God desires truth in the inner man, and He judges deceit that refuses to return.

Application

  • Seek the Lord early when sin is first exposed.
  • Refuse half-hearted mixtures; be fully devoted to God.
  • Pray from the heart, not with words that cover rebellion.
  • Rely on God for strength rather than foreign or worldly props.

Bible

1When 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.

2And 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.

3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

4They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

5In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

6For 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.

7They 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.

8Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

9Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

10And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.

11Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

12When 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.

13Woe 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.

14And 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.

15Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.

16They 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.

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