1When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they have dealt falsely: and the thief cometh in, and the robber spoileth without.
2And they consider not in their hearts, that I remember all their wickedness: now their own inventions have beset them about: they are in my sight.
3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
4They are all adulterers, and as a very oven heated by the baker, which ceaseth from raising up, and from kneading the dough until it be leavened.
5This is the day of our king: the princes have made him sick with flagons of wine: he stretcheth out his hand to scorners.
6For they have made ready their heart like an oven while they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night: in the morning it burneth as a flame of fire.
7They 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.
8Ephraim hath mixed himself among the people. Ephraim is as a cake on the hearth not turned.
9Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here, and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
10And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face, and they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him for all this.
11Ephraim also is like a dove deceived without heart: they call to Egypt: they go to Assyria.
12But when they shall go, I will spread my net upon them, and draw them down as the fowls of the heaven: I will chastise them as their Congregation hath heard.
13Woe unto them: for they have fled away from me: destruction shall be unto them, because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
14And they have not cried unto me with their hearts, when they howled upon their beds: they assembled themselves for corn, and wine, and they rebel against me.
15Though I have bound and strengthened their arm, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
16They 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 tongues: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.