1When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, and the evils of Samaria, for they have worked falsehood; and a thief comes in, a troop raids outside.
2And they do not say to their heart that all their evil I remember; now their deeds have surrounded them, they are before my face.
3With their evil they make a king glad, and with their lies, princes.
4They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker, who ceases to stir from the kneading of the dough until its leavening.
5On the day of our king the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.
6For they have brought near their heart like an oven in their ambush; all the night their baker sleeps, in the morning it burns like a flaming fire.
7They are all hot like an oven, and they devour their judges; all their kings have fallen, there is none among them who calls to me.
8Ephraim, among the peoples he mixes himself; Ephraim has become a cake not turned.
9Strangers have devoured his strength, and he does not know; gray hair also is scattered on him, and he does not know.
10And the pride of Israel testifies to his face, but they have not returned to YHWH their God, nor sought him in all this.
11And Ephraim has become like a silly dove, without heart; Egypt they call, to Assyria they go.
12As they go, I will spread my net upon them; like the bird of the heavens I will bring them down; I will chastise them according to the report to their congregation.
13Woe to them, for they have wandered from me! Destruction to them, for they have transgressed against me! And I would redeem them, but they have spoken lies against me.
14And they have not cried to me with their heart, when they wail upon their beds; for grain and new wine they assemble themselves, they turn aside from me.
15And I disciplined, I strengthened their arms, yet against me they devise evil.
16They return, but not upward; they have become like a deceitful bow; their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue; this is their derision in the land of Egypt.