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| [1]When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they have dealt falsely: and the thief cometh in, and the robber spoileth without. |
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| [2]And they consider not in their hearts, that I remember all their wickedness: now their own inventions have beset them about: they are in my sight. |
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| [3]They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. |
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| [4]They are all adulterers, and as a very oven heated by the baker, which ceaseth from raising up, and from kneading the dough until it be leavened. |
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| [5]This is the day of our king: the princes have made him sick with flagons of wine: he stretcheth out his hand to scorners. |
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| [6]For they have made ready their heart like an oven whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night: in the morning it burneth as a flame of fire. |
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| [7]They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges: all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me. |
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| [8]Ephraim hath mixed himself among the people. Ephraim is as a cake on the hearth not turned. |
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| [9]Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. |
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| [10]And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face, and they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him for all this. |
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| [11]Ephraim also is like a dove deceived, without heart: they call to Egypt: they go to Assyria. |
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| [12]But when they shall go, I will spread my net upon them, and draw them down as the fowls of the heaven: I will chastise them as their congregation hath heard. |
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| [13]Woe unto them: for they have fled away from me: destruction shall be unto them, because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me. |
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| [14]And they have not cried unto me with their hearts, when they howled upon their beds: they assembled themselves for corn, and wine, and they rebel against me. |
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| [15]Though I have bound and strengthened their arm, yet do they imagine mischief against me. |
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| [16]They return, but not to the Most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of their tongues: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt. |
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