1 In My healing of Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they practice deceit, and a thief comes [in]; bandits raid in the street. VP
2 And they do not tell their hearts [that] all their evil I remember. Now their deeds have surrounded them; they are before My face. VP
3 With their evil they make glad the king, and with their lies—princes. VP
4 They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker, who ceases stirring [the fire] after kneading the dough until it [is] leavened. VP
5 On the day of our king, the princes became sick, raging from the wine; he stretched out his hand with the mockers. VP
6 For they draw near; like an oven [is] their heart in ambush; all night their baker is sleeping; in the morning it burns like a fire of flame. VP
7 All of them are hot like an oven, and they devour their judges; all their kings have fallen; no one among them calls to Me. VP
8 Ephraim, he has mixed himself with the nations; Ephraim is a cake not turned. VP
9 Strangers have devoured his power, and he does not know; even gray hairs are scattered on him, and he does not know. VP
10 And the pride of Israel testifies to his face; they do not return to YHWH their God, they do not seek Him in all this. VP
11 And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without sense; to Egypt they call; to Assyria they go. VP
12 When they go, I will spread over them My net, like birds of the heavens I will bring them down; I will chastise them according to the report of their congregation. VP
13 Woe to them, for they have fled from Me! Destruction [be] to them, because they have transgressed against Me! And though I would redeem them, they have spoken lies against Me. VP
14 And they did not cry out to Me with their heart, when they wailed upon their beds; they slash themselves for grain and new wine; they rebel against Me. VP
15 And I disciplined—I strengthened their arms; against Me they devise evil. VP
16 They return, not to the Most High; they are like a bow of slackness; their princes will fall by the sword, from the insolence of their tongue; this [is] their derision in the land of Egypt. VP