13 Woe unto them: for they have fled away from me: destruction shall be unto them, because they have transgressed against me: though I have [a]redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

14 And they have not cried unto me with their hearts, [b]when they howled upon their beds: [c]they assembled themselves for corn, and wine, and they rebel against me.

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

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 [d]of their tongues: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 7:13 That is, divers times redeemed them, and delivered them from death.
  2. Hosea 7:14 When they were in affliction, and cried out for pain, they sought not unto me for help.
  3. Hosea 7:14 They only seek their own commodity and wealth, and pass not for me their God.
  4. Hosea 7:16 Because they boast of their own strength, and pass not what they speak against me and my servants, Ps. 73:9.

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