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When I ^awould heal Israel,Then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered,And the evil deeds of Samaria,For they work ^bfalsehood;The thief enters in;^cRaiders ¹ransack outside,2 And they do not say to their heartsThat I ^aremember all their evil.Now their ^bdeeds are all around them;They are before My face.3 ^aWith their evil they make the ^bking glad,And the princes with their ^cdeceptions.4 They are ^aall adulterers,Like an oven heated by the bakerWho ceases to stir up the fireFrom the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.5 On the ¹day of our king, the princes ^abecame sick with the heat of wine;He stretched out his hand with ^bscoffers,6 For their hearts are like an ^aovenAs they draw near in their ¹plotting;Their ²anger ³smolders all night;In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.7 All of them are hot like an oven,And they devour their ^ajudges;All their kings have fallen.^bNone of them calls on Me.

8 Ephraim ^amixes himself with the peoples;Ephraim has become a cake not turned.9 ^aStrangers devour his power,Yet he ^bdoes not know it;Gray hairs also are sprinkled on him,Yet he does not know it.10 So the ^apride of Israel answers against him,Yet ^bthey have not returned to Yahweh their God,Nor have they sought Him, for all this.11 So ^aEphraim has become like a silly dove, ^bwithout a heart of wisdom;They call to ^cEgypt; they go to ^dAssyria.12 When they go, I will ^aspread My net over them;I will bring them down like the birds of the sky.I will ^bchastise them in accordance with the report to their congregation.13 ^aWoe to them, for they have ^bfled from Me!Destruction is theirs, for they have transgressed against Me!And I ^cwould redeem them, but they speak lies against Me.14 And ^athey do not cry out to Me in their heartWhen they wail on their beds;For the sake of grain and new wine they ¹^bgather together as sojourners;They ^cdepart from Me.15 Although I disciplined and strengthened their arms,Yet they ^adevise evil against Me.16 They turn, but not ¹upward;They are like a ^adeceitful bow;Their princes will fall by the swordBecause of the ²^bindignation of their tongue.This will be their ^cscoffing in the land of Egypt.