¹xwhen I would heal Israel,

the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed,

and the evil deeds of ySamaria,

for zthey deal falsely;

the thief breaks in,

and the bandits raid outside.

²But they do not consider

that aI remember all their evil.

Now btheir deeds surround them;

cthey are before my face.

³By their evil dthey make dthe king glad,

and the princes by their treachery.

⁴eThey are all adulterers;

they are like a heated oven

whose baker ceases to stir the fire,

from the kneading of the dough

until it is leavened.

⁵On the day of four king, the princes

became sick with the heat of wine;

he stretched out his hand with mockers.

⁶For with hearts like an oven gthey approach their intrigue;

all night their anger smolders;

in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

⁷All of them are hot as an oven,

and they devour their rulers.

All htheir kings ihave fallen,

and none of them calls upon me.

⁸Ephraim jmixes himself with the peoples;

Ephraim is a cake not turned.

⁹kStrangers devour his strength,

and lhe knows it not;

gray hairs are sprinkled upon him,

and lhe knows it not.

¹⁰mThe pride of Israel testifies to his face;1

nyet they do not return to the Lord their God,

nor seek him, for all this.

¹¹Ephraim is like a dove,

osilly and without sense,

calling to pEgypt, going to qAssyria.

¹²As they go, rI will spread over them my net;

I will bring them down like birds of the heavens;

sI will discipline them taccording to the report made to their congregation.

¹³uWoe to them, for they have strayed from me!

Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me!

vI would redeem them,

but wthey speak lies against me.

¹⁴xThey do not cry to me from the heart,

but ythey wail upon their beds;

for grain and wine they gash themselves;

they rebel against me.

¹⁵Although zI trained and strengthened their arms,

yet they devise evil against me.

¹⁶They areturn, but not upward;2

they are blike a treacherous bow;

their princes shall fall by the sword

because of cthe insolence of their tongue.

This shall be their derision din the land of Egypt.