The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: without.
HOS 7:2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their
wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before
my face.
HOS 7:3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes
with their lies.
HOS 7:4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who
ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be
leavened.
HOS 7:5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with
bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
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