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| [1]`When I give healing to Israel, Then revealed is the iniquity of Ephraim, And the wickedness of Samaria, For they have wrought falsehood, And a thief doth come in, Stript off hath a troop in the street, |
[1]When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without. |
| [2]And they do not say to their heart, [That] all their evil I have remembered, Now compassed them have their doings, Over-against My face they have been. |
[2]And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face. |
| [3]With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies -- princes. |
[3]They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. |
| [4]All of them [are] adulterers, Like a burning oven of a baker, He ceaseth from stirring up after kneading the dough, till its leavening. |
[4]They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened. |
| [5]A day of our king! Princes have polluted themselves [with] the poison of wine, He hath drawn out his hand with scorners. |
[5]In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. |
| [6]For they have drawn near, As an oven [is] their heart, In their lying in wait all the night sleep doth their baker, Morning! he is burning as a flaming fire. |
[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 flaming fire. |
| [7]All of them are warm as an oven, And they have devoured their judges, All their kings have fallen, There is none calling unto Me among them. |
[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. |
| [8]Ephraim! among peoples he mixeth himself, Ephraim hath been a cake unturned. |
[8]Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. |
| [9]Devoured have strangers his power, And he hath not known, Also old age hath sprinkled [itself] on him, And he hath not known. |
[9]Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. |
| [10]And humbled hath been the excellency of Israel to his face, And they have not turned back unto Jehovah their God, Nor have they sought Him for all this. |
[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. |
| [11]And Ephraim is as a simple dove without heart, Egypt they called on -- [to] Asshur they have gone. |
[11]Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. |
| [12]When they go I spread over them My net, As the fowl of the heavens I bring them down, I chastise them as their company hath heard. |
[12]When 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, as their congregation hath heard. |
| [13]Wo to them, for they wandered from Me, Destruction to them, for they transgressed against Me, And I -- I ransom them, and they have spoken lies against Me, |
[13]Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me. |
| [14]And have not cried unto Me with their heart, but howl on their beds, For corn and new wine they assemble themselves, They turn aside against Me. |
[14]And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me. |
| [15]And I instructed -- I strengthened their arms, And concerning Me they think evil! |
[15]Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me. |
| [16]They turn back -- not to the Most High, They have been as a deceitful bow, Fall by sword do their princes, From the insolence of their tongue, This [is] their derision in the land of Egypt! |
[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 tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt. |