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¹ when I would heal Israel,
and the corruption of Ephraim is revealed,
    and the wicked deeds of Samaria;
because they deal in falsehood,
    the thief breaks in,^[a]
    and the bandit raids the outside.
² But they did not consider^[b]
    that I remember all their wickedness.
Now their deeds surround them;
    they are before my face.
³ By their wickedness they make the king glad,
    and the officials by their treacheries.
⁴ All of them commit adultery,
    like a burning oven
whose baker has stopped from stirring the fire,
    and from kneading the dough until it is leavened.
⁵ On the day of our king, the princes
    became sick with the heat of wine;^[c]
he stretched out his hand with mockers.
⁶     Because they are kindled^[d] like an oven,
their heart burns within them;
    all night their anger smolders,^[e]
in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
⁷ All of them are hot as an oven,
    and they devour^[f] their rulers.
All their kings have fallen;
    there is none who calls to me amongst them.
⁸ Ephraim mixes himself
    with the nations;
Ephraim is a bread cake
    not turned over.
⁹ Foreigners devour^[g] his strength,
    and he does not know it;
mold^[h] is also sprinkled upon him,
    and he does not know it.
¹⁰ The pride of Israel testifies against him^[i]—
    they do not return to Yahweh their God;
    they do not seek him for all of this.^[j]
11 Ephraim was like a dove,
    silly, without sense;^[k]
they call to Egypt,
    they go to Assyria.
¹² Just as they go, I will cast my net
    over them;
I will bring them down
        like the birds^[l] of the heavens;^[m]
    I will discipline them
        according to a report to their assembly.^[n]
13 Woe to them, because they have strayed from me!
    Destruction to them, because they have rebelled against me!
I myself would redeem them,
    but they speak lies against me.
¹⁴ They do not cry out to me from their heart,
    but they wail on their beds;
because of grain and new wine they lacerate^[o] themselves;
    they depart from me.
¹⁵ And I myself trained
    and strengthened their arms;
        but they plan evil against me.
¹⁶ They turn, not to the Most High,^[p]
    like a slack bow;
their officials will fall by the sword
    because of the anger of their tongue.
This is their scorn^[q]
    in the land of Egypt.