When I
would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of
Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of
Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief
cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth
without.
02 And they consider not in their hearts that I
remember all their wickedness: now their own
doings have beset them about; they are before my
face.
03 They make the king glad with their wickedness,
and the princes with their lies.
04 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by
the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath
kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
05 In the day of our king the princes have made
him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out
his hand with scorners.
06 For they have made ready their heart like an
oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker
sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth
as a flaming fire.
07 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured
their judges; all their kings are fallen: there
is none among them that calleth unto me.
08 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the
people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
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09 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he
knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and
there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
10 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his
face: and they do not return to the Lord their
God, nor seek him for all this.
11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without
heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
12 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon
them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the
heaven; I will chastise them, as their
congregation hath heard.
13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me:
destruction unto them! because they have
transgressed against me: though I have redeemed
them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
14 And they have not cried unto me with their
heart, when they howled upon their beds: they
assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they
rebel against me.
15 Though I have bound and strengthened their
arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
16 They return, but not to the most High: 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.
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