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¹ "When I would have healed Israel, Then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, And the wickedness of Samaria. For they have committed fraud; A thief comes in; A band of robbers takes spoil outside. ² They do not consider in their hearts That I remember all their wickedness; Now their own deeds have surrounded them; They are before My face. ³ They make a king glad with their wickedness, And princes with their lies. ⁴ "They are all adulterers. Like an oven heated by a baker-- He ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough, Until it is leavened. ⁵ In the day of our king Princes have made him sick, inflamed with wine; He stretched out his hand with scoffers. ⁶ They prepare their heart like an oven,While they lie in wait;Their baker [fn] sleeps all night;In the morning it burns like a flaming fire. ⁷ They are all hot, like an oven, And have devoured their judges; All their kings have fallen. None among them calls upon Me.

⁸ "Ephraim has mixed himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake unturned. ⁹ Aliens have devoured his strength, But he does not know it; Yes, gray hairs are here and there on him, Yet he does not know it. ¹⁰ And the pride of Israel testifies to his face, But they do not return to the LORD their God, Nor seek Him for all this. ¹¹ "Ephraim also is like a silly dove, without sense-- They call to Egypt, They go to Assyria. ¹² Wherever they go, I will spread My net on them; I will bring them down like birds of the air; I will chastise them According to what their congregation has heard. ¹³ "Woe to them, for they have fled from Me! Destruction to them, Because they have transgressed against Me! Though I redeemed them, Yet they have spoken lies against Me. ¹⁴ They did not cry out to Me with their heartWhen they wailed upon their beds."They assemble together for [fn] grain and new wine,They rebel against Me; [fn] ¹⁵ Though I disciplined and strengthened their arms, Yet they devise evil against Me; ¹⁶ 16 They return, but not to the Most High; [fn] They are like a treacherous bow.Their princes shall fall by the swordFor the cursings of their tongue.This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.