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^1 (a)when I would heal Israel,
    the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed,
    and the evil deeds of ^(b)Samaria,
for ^(c)they deal falsely;
    the thief breaks in,
    and the bandits raid outside.
² But they do not consider
    that ^(d)I remember all their evil.
Now ^(e)their deeds surround them;
    ^(f)they are before my face.
³ By their evil ^(g)they make ^(h)the king glad,
    and the princes by their treachery.
^4 (i)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 ^(j)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 ^(k)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 ^(l)their kings ^(m)have fallen,
    and none of them calls upon me.

⁸ Ephraim ⁽ⁿ⁾mixes himself with the peoples;
    Ephraim is a cake not turned.
^9 (o)Strangers devour his strength,
    and ^(p)he knows it not;
gray hairs are sprinkled upon him,
    and ^(q)he knows it not.
^10 (r)The pride of Israel testifies to his face;^{[a]
    (s)}yet they do not return to the Lord their God,
    nor seek him, for all this.

¹¹ Ephraim is like a dove,
    ^(t)silly and without sense,
    calling to ^(u)Egypt, going to ^(v)Assyria.
¹² As they go, ^(w)I will spread over them my net;
    I will bring them down like birds of the heavens;
    ^(x)I will discipline them ^(y)according to the report made to their congregation.
^13 (z)Woe to them, for they have strayed from me!
    Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me!
^(aa)I would redeem them,
    but ^(ab)they speak lies against me.

^14 (ac)They do not cry to me from the heart,
    but ^(ad)they wail upon their beds;
for grain and wine they gash themselves;
    they rebel against me.
¹⁵ Although ^(ae)I trained and strengthened their arms,
    yet they devise evil against me.
¹⁶ They ^(af)return, but not upward;^[b]
    they are ^(ag)like a treacherous bow;
their princes shall fall by the sword
    because of ^(ah)the insolence of their tongue.
This shall be their derision ^(ai)in the land of Egypt.