Hosea 6 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ And like the jaws of highway robbers, they conspire with the priests who murder in the way those that pass out Sichem: for they have wrought wickedness.

² 0 I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the fornications of Ephraim there: Israel is defiled.

³ 1 And thou also, O Juda, set thee a harvest, when I shall bring back captivity of my people.

⁴ When I would have healed Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria, for they have committed falsehood, and the thief is come in to steal, the robber is without.

⁵ And lest they may say in their hearts, that I remember all their wickedness: their own devices now have beset them about, they have been done before my face.

⁶ They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and the princes with their lies.

⁷ They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker: the city rested a little from the mingling of the leaven, till the whole was leavened.

⁸ The day of our king, the princes began to be mad with wine: he stretched out his hand with scorners.

⁹ Because they have applied their heart like an oven, when he laid snares for them: he slept all the night baking them, in the morning he himself was heated as a flaming fire.

¹⁰ They were all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges : all their kings have fallen: there is none amongst them that calleth unto me.

¹¹ Ephraim himself is mixed among the nations: Ephraim is become as bread baked under the ashes, that is not turned.