Hosea 7:3

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Hosea 7:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible

1 When I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim will be exposed, as well as the crimes of Samaria. For they practice deceit and thieves break in; bandits raid in the streets.

2 But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face.

3 They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies.

4 They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.

5 The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him.

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Jeremiah 9:2

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Jeremiah 28:1

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Jeremiah 28:2

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Jeremiah 28:3

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Jeremiah 28:4

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Amos 7:11

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Amos 7:12

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Amos 7:13

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