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  "kind": "Chapter",
  "metadata": {
    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "hosea",
    "chapter": 7
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 7,
    "bookSlug": "hosea",
    "bookCode": "HOS",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "HOS-7:1",
        "verseRef": "HOS.7.1",
        "text": "When I would heal Israel,\nthen the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered,\nalso the wickedness of Samaria;\nfor they commit falsehood,\nand the thief enters in,\nand the gang of robbers ravages outside."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "HOS-7:2",
        "verseRef": "HOS.7.2",
        "text": "They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness.\nNow their own deeds have engulfed them.\nThey are before my face."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "HOS-7:3",
        "verseRef": "HOS.7.3",
        "text": "They make the king glad with their wickedness,\nand the princes with their lies."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "HOS-7:4",
        "verseRef": "HOS.7.4",
        "text": "They are all adulterers.\nThey are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring,\nfrom the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "HOS-7:5",
        "verseRef": "HOS.7.5",
        "text": "On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine.\nHe joined his hand with mockers."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "HOS-7:6",
        "verseRef": "HOS.7.6",
        "text": "For they have prepared their heart like an oven,\nwhile they lie in wait.\nTheir baker sleeps all the night.\nIn the morning it burns as a flaming fire."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "HOS-7:7",
        "verseRef": "HOS.7.7",
        "text": "They are all hot as an oven,\nand devour their judges.\nAll their kings have fallen.\nThere is no one among them who calls to me."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "HOS-7:8",
        "verseRef": "HOS.7.8",
        "text": "Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations.\nEphraim is a pancake not turned over."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "HOS-7:9",
        "verseRef": "HOS.7.9",
        "text": "Strangers have devoured his strength,\nand he doesn’t realize it.\nIndeed, gray hairs are here and there on him,\nand he doesn’t realize it."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "HOS-7:10",
        "verseRef": "HOS.7.10",
        "text": "The pride of Israel testifies to his face;\nyet they haven’t returned to Yahweh their God,\nnor sought him, for all this."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "HOS-7:11",
        "verseRef": "HOS.7.11",
        "text": "“Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding.\nThey call to Egypt.\nThey go to Assyria."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "HOS-7:12",
        "verseRef": "HOS.7.12",
        "text": "When they go, I will spread my net on them.\nI will bring them down like the birds of the sky.\nI will chastise them, as their congregation has heard."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "HOS-7:13",
        "verseRef": "HOS.7.13",
        "text": "Woe to them!\nFor they have wandered from me.\nDestruction to them!\nFor they have trespassed against me.\nThough I would redeem them,\nyet they have spoken lies against me."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "HOS-7:14",
        "verseRef": "HOS.7.14",
        "text": "They haven’t cried to me with their heart,\nbut they howl on their beds.\nThey assemble themselves for grain and new wine.\nThey turn away from me."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "HOS-7:15",
        "verseRef": "HOS.7.15",
        "text": "Though I have taught and strengthened their arms,\nyet they plot evil against me."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "HOS-7:16",
        "verseRef": "HOS.7.16",
        "text": "They return, but not to the Most High.\nThey are like a faulty bow.\nTheir princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue.\nThis will be their derision in the land of Egypt."
      }
    ]
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