Kniha proroka Ozeáša

1 (UKJV) "When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief comes in, and the troop of robbers spoils without. "

2 (UKJV) "And 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. "

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

4 (UKJV) They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceases from raising after he has kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

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

6 (UKJV) "For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleeps all the night; in the morning it burns as a flaming fire. "

7 (UKJV) "They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calls unto me. "

8 (UKJV) "Ephraim, he has mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. "

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

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

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

12 (UKJV) "When 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 has heard. "

13 (UKJV) Woe 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.

14 (UKJV) And 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.

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

16 (UKJV) They 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.