• May 1, 2016
  • BY Scott Lilly
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CATEGORIZED IN: Hosea

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Charles Haddon Spurgeon: Though my thought be invisible to the sight, though as yet I be not myself cognizant of the shape it is assuming, yet thou hast it under thy consideration, and thou perceivest its nature, its source, its drift, its result. Never dost thou misjudge or wrongly interpret me: my inmost thought is perfectly understood by thine impartial mind. Though thou shouldst give but a glance at my heart, and see me as one sees a passing meteor moving afar, yet though wouldst by that glimpse sum up all the meanings of my soul, so transparent is everything to thy piercing glance.

Hosea 6:11-7:7

For you also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed.

 

When I restore the fortunes of my people,

when I would heal Israel,

the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed,

and the evil deeds of Samaria,

for they deal falsely;

the thief breaks in,

and the bandits raid outside.

But they do not consider

that I remember all their evil.

Now their deeds surround them;

they are before my face.

By their evil they make the king glad,

and the princes by their treachery.

They are all adulterers;

they are like a heated oven

whose baker ceases to stir the fire,

from the kneading of the dough

until it is leavened.

On the day of our king, the princes

became sick with the heat of wine;

he stretched out his hand with mockers.

For with hearts like an oven they approach their intrigue;

all night their anger smolders;

in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

All of them are hot as an oven,

and they devour their rulers.

All their kings have fallen,

and none of them calls upon me.



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