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¹ "When I give healing to Israel, || Then the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed, || And the wickedness of Samaria, || For they have worked falsehood, || And a thief comes in, || A troop has stripped off in the street,² And they do not say to their heart, || [That] I have remembered all their evil, || Now their doings have surrounded them, || They have been before My face.³ With their wickedness they make a king glad, || And with their lies—princes.⁴ All of them [are] adulterers, || Like a burning oven of a baker, || He ceases from stirring up after kneading the dough, until its leavening.⁵ A day of our king! Princes have defiled themselves [with] the poison of wine, || He has drawn out his hand with scorners.⁶ For they have drawn near, || Their heart [is] as an oven || In their lying in wait—their baker sleeps all night, || Morning! He is burning as a flaming fire.⁷ All of them are warm as an oven, || And they have devoured their judges, || All their kings have fallen, || There is none calling to Me among them.

⁸ Ephraim! He mixes himself among peoples, || Ephraim has been an unturned cake.⁹ Strangers have devoured his power, || And he has not known, || Also old age has sprinkled [itself] on him, || And he has not known.¹⁰ And the excellence of Israel has been humbled to his face, || And they have not turned back to their God YHWH, || Nor have they sought Him for all this.¹¹ And Ephraim is as a simple dove without heart, || Egypt they called on—[to] Asshur they have gone.¹² When they go I spread over them My net, || As the bird of the heavens I bring them down, || I discipline them as their congregation has heard.¹³ Woe to them, for they wandered from Me, || Destruction to them, for they transgressed against Me, || And I ransom them, and they have spoken lies against Me,¹⁴ And have not cried to Me with their heart, but howl on their beds; They assemble themselves for grain and new wine, || They turn aside against Me.¹⁵ And I instructed—I strengthened their arms, || And concerning Me they think evil!¹⁶ They turn back—not to the Most High, || They have been as a deceitful bow, || Their princes fall by sword, || From the insolence of their tongue, || This [is] their derision in the land of Egypt!"