1When I was healing Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they worked deceit; and the thief comes in, [and] the troop of robbers spoils without. 2And they do not consider in their hearts [that] I remember all their wickedness; now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face. 3They make the king glad with their wickedness and the princes with their lies. 4They [are] all adulterers as an oven heated by the baker [who] shall cease from waking after he has kneaded the dough until it is leavened. 5In the day of our king the princes have made [him] sick with [a] wineskin; he stretched out his hand with the scorners. 6For they have made ready their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; their baker sleeps all night; in the morning it burns as a flaming fire. 7They are all hot as an oven and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen; [there is] no one among them that calls unto me. 8Ephraim, he has mixed himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned. 9Strangers have devoured his strength, and he does not know [it]; yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he does not understand. 10And the pride of Israel shall testify to his face, and they have not returned to the LORD their God, nor have they sought him with all this. 11Ephraim also was like a deceived dove, without understanding; they shall call to Egypt, they shall go to Assyria. 12When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them according to what has been heard in their congregations. 13Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction upon them! because they have rebelled against me; [though] I have ransomed them, yet they have spoken lies against me. 14And they have not cried unto me with their heart when they howled upon their beds; they congregated themselves for the wheat and the wine, [and] they rebelled against me. 15Though I have bound [and] strengthened their arms, yet they imagine evil against me. 16They returned, [but] not to the most High; they were like a deceitful bow; their princes fell by the sword for the arrogance of their tongue; this [shall be] their derision in the land of Egypt.: