LEB HOS section

Ephraim’s Guilt

11 For you also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed,
- when I restore the fortunes of my people,
7 when I would heal Israel,
and the corruption of Ephraim is revealed,
- and the wicked deeds of Samaria;
because they deal in falsehood,
- the thief breaks in,[fn]
- and the bandit raids the outside.
2 But they did not consider[fn]
- that I remember all their wickedness.
Now their deeds surround them;
- they are before my face.
3 By their wickedness they make the king glad,
- and the officials by their treacheries.
4 All of them commit adultery,
- like a burning oven
whose baker has stopped from stirring the fire,
- and from kneading the dough until it is leavened.
5 On the day of our king, the princes
- became sick with the heat of wine;[fn]
he stretched out his hand with mockers.
- 6 Because they are kindled[fn] like an oven,
their heart burns within them;
- all night their anger smolders ,[fn]
in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
7 All of them are hot as an oven,
- and they devour[fn] their rulers.
All their kings have fallen;
- there is none who calls to me amongst them.
8 Ephraim mixes himself
- with the nations;
Ephraim is a bread cake
- not turned over.
9 Foreigners devour[fn] his strength,
- and he does not know it;
mold[fn] is also sprinkled upon him,
- and he does not know it.
10 The pride of Israel testifies against him[fn]—
- they do not return to Yahweh their God;
- they do not seek him for all of this.[fn]
11 Ephraim was like a dove,
- silly, without sense ;[fn]
they call to Egypt,
- they go to Assyria.
12 Just as they go, I will cast my net
- over them;
I will bring them down
- like the birds[fn] of the heavens;[fn]
I will discipline them
- according to a report to their assembly.[fn]

13 Woe to them, because they have strayed from me!

Destruction to them, because they have rebelled against me!

I myself would redeem them,

but they speak lies against me.

14 They do not cry out to me from their heart,

but they wail on their beds;

because of grain and new wine they lacerate[fn] themselves;

they depart from me.

15 And I myself trained

and strengthened their arms;
- but they plan evil against me.

16 They turn, not to the Most High,[fn]

like a slack bow;

their officials will fall by the sword

because of the anger of their tongue.

This is their scorn[fn]

in the land of Egypt.

7:? Or “comes in”

7:? Literally “But they did not say to their heart”

7:? This phrase refers to the effects of wine on the body

7:? Hebrew “they drew near;” other ancient translations read “they are kindled”

7:? Literally “sleeps”

7:? Or “they eat”

7:? Or “Foreigners eat”

7:? Literally “grey hair,” but in this case the word refers to the “hairs of mold” on food

7:? Literally “answers against his face”

7:? Or “in all of this”

7:? Literally “without heart”

7:? Hebrew “bird”

7:? Or “sky”

7:? Hebrew uncertain

7:? Or “gash”

7:? Hebrew uncertain; the NRSV translates “to that which does not profit”; the NASB translates “but not upward”

7:? The NRSV translates “So much for their babbling”

LEB by section HOS 6:11

Ephraim’s Guilt