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¹ When I would heal Israel, then is the iniquity of Ephraim uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the troop of robbers ravages outside.² And they don't consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.³ They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.⁴ They are all adulterers; they are as an oven heated by the baker; he ceases to stir [the fire], from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.⁵ On the day of our king the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with scoffers.⁶ For they have brought their heart into their ambush, as into an oven: their baker sleeps all the night; in the morning it burns as a flaming fire.⁷ They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges; all their kings have fallen: there is none among them that calls to me.

⁸ Ephraim, he mixes himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.⁹ Strangers have devoured his strength, and he does not know [it]: yes, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he does not know [it].¹⁰ And the pride of Israel testifies to his face: yet they have not returned to Yahweh their God, nor sought him, for all this.¹¹ And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.¹² When they shall go, I will spread my net on them; I will bring them down as the birds of the heavens; I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.¹³ Woe to them! for they have wandered from me; destruction to them! for they have trespassed against me: though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.¹⁴ And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds: they gash themselves for grain and new wine; they rebel against me.¹⁵ Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet they devise mischief against me.¹⁶ They return, but not upwards; they are like a deceitful bow; their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.