¹ 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 comes in, and the troop of robbers spoils without. ² 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. ³ They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. ⁴ They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceases from raising after he has kneaded the dough, until it be leavened. ⁵ In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine he stretched out his hand with scorners. ⁶ For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleeps all the night; in the morning it burns as a flaming fire. ⁷ They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calls to me. ⁸ Ephraim, he has mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. ⁹ Strangers have devoured his strength, and he know it not: yes, gray hairs are here and there on him, yet he know not. ¹⁰ And the pride of Israel testifies 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 will go, I will spread my net on them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard. ¹³ Woe to them! for they have fled from me: destruction to them! because they have transgressed against me: even though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me. ¹⁴ And they have not cried to me with their heart, when they howled on 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 will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this will be their derision in the land of Egypt.