{
    "translation": "Webster's Bible",
    "abbreviation": "wb",
    "lang": "en",
    "language": "English",
    "direction": "LTR",
    "encoding": "",
    "book_nr": 28,
    "book_name": "Hosea",
    "chapter": 7,
    "name": "Hosea 7",
    "verses": [
        {
            "chapter": 7,
            "verse": 1,
            "name": "Hosea 7:1",
            "text": "When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was disclosed, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, [and] the troop of robbers strippeth without."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 7,
            "verse": 2,
            "name": "Hosea 7:2",
            "text": "And they consider not in their hearts [that] I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them around; they are before my face."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 7,
            "verse": 3,
            "name": "Hosea 7:3",
            "text": "They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 7,
            "verse": 4,
            "name": "Hosea 7:4",
            "text": "They [are] all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, [who] ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it is leavened."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 7,
            "verse": 5,
            "name": "Hosea 7:5",
            "text": "In the day of our king the princes have made [him] sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 7,
            "verse": 6,
            "name": "Hosea 7:6",
            "text": "For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 7,
            "verse": 7,
            "name": "Hosea 7:7",
            "text": "They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: [there is] none among them that calleth to me."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 7,
            "verse": 8,
            "name": "Hosea 7:8",
            "text": "Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 7,
            "verse": 9,
            "name": "Hosea 7:9",
            "text": "Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth [it] not: yes, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 7,
            "verse": 10,
            "name": "Hosea 7:10",
            "text": "And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 7,
            "verse": 11,
            "name": "Hosea 7:11",
            "text": "Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 7,
            "verse": 12,
            "name": "Hosea 7:12",
            "text": "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 hath heard."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 7,
            "verse": 13,
            "name": "Hosea 7:13",
            "text": "Woe to them! for they have fled from me: destruction to them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 7,
            "verse": 14,
            "name": "Hosea 7:14",
            "text": "And they have not cried to me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, [and] they rebel against me."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 7,
            "verse": 15,
            "name": "Hosea 7:15",
            "text": "Though I have bound [and] strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me."
        },
        {
            "chapter": 7,
            "verse": 16,
            "name": "Hosea 7:16",
            "text": "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."
        }
    ]
}