1. When I would heal Israel,the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed,and the wickedness of Samaria.For they deal deceitfully;the thief breaks in;the robbers raid outside,
2. but they did not consider in their heartsthat I remember all their wickedness.Now their own deeds surround them;they are before My face.
3. They make the king glad with their wickedness,and the princes with their lies.
4. They are all adulterers,like an oven heated by a baker,who ceases stirring the fireafter kneading the dough until it is leavened.
5. On the day of our king the princes made him sickfrom the heat of wine.He stretched out his hand with scorners.
6. For they are kindled like an oven.Their heart burns within them;their anger smolders all night;in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
7. They are all hot as an oven,and they devour their judges.All their kings have fallen,and none of them calls to Me.
8. Ephraim mixes himself with the people.Ephraim is a cake not turned.
9. Foreigners devour his strength,but he does not know it.Gray hairs are here and there upon him,but he does not know it.