Exodus 14 "We're free! We're free at last!!"

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  • Community:
    Ambassadors
    By:
    Jeff Wilson
    Date:
    Scripture:
    Exodus 13:17-22

  • Hosea 7

    7:1   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.
    2   But they do not consider
        that I remember all their evil.
      Now their deeds surround them;
        they are before my face.
    3   By their evil they make the king glad,
        and the princes by their treachery.
    4   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.
    5   On the day of our king, the princes
        became sick with the heat of wine;
        he stretched out his hand with mockers.
    6   For with hearts like an oven they approach their intrigue;
        all night their anger smolders;
        in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
    7   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.
    8   Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples;
        Ephraim is a cake not turned.
    9   Strangers devour his strength,
        and he knows it not;
      gray hairs are sprinkled upon him,
        and he knows it not.
    10   The pride of Israel testifies to his face;
        yet they do not return to the LORD their God,
        nor seek him, for all this.
    11   Ephraim is like a dove,
        silly and without sense,
        calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.
    12   As they go, I will spread over them my net;
        I will bring them down like birds of the heavens;
        I will discipline them according to the report made to their congregation.
    13   Woe to them, for they have strayed from me!
        Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me!
      I would redeem them,
        but they speak lies against me.
    14   They do not cry to me from the heart,
        but they wail upon their beds;
      for grain and wine they gash themselves;
        they rebel against me.
    15   Although I trained and strengthened their arms,
        yet they devise evil against me.
    16   They return, but not upward;
        they are like a treacherous bow;
      their princes shall fall by the sword
        because of the insolence of their tongue.
      This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.