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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 revealed and the wickedness of Samaria; for they committed falsehood in my presence; and the thief came in, and the robber robbed men in the streets. |
| [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 never said in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness; now their own devices have beset them about; they were before my face. |
| [3]With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies -- princes. |
[3]They have made the kings 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]Their rulers are all adulterers, their passion is as an oven heated to bake bread, the baker who kneads the dough ceases from going to the city, and waits until it is 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]The day they start to give counsel, the princes begin to become inflamed with wine; they stretch out their hands with wicked men. |
| [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]Because their heart is hot like an oven with their plots, all night their anger is suppressed; and in the morning it burns 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 have fallen; there is none among them who calls upon me |
| [8]Ephraim! among peoples he mixeth himself, Ephraim hath been a cake unturned. |
[8]Ephraim has mixed himself with Gentiles; Ephraim has become as a loaf of bread which is eaten before it is baked. |
| [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]Thus strangers have devoured his strength, and he knows it not: yea, gray hairs have grown upon him, yet he knows it 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 has been humbled in his presence; 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 young dove without understanding; they have come to Egypt, they are gone 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]Wherever they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the air; I will chastise them according to the testimony which is heard against them. |
| [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 to them! for they have fled from me; I will bring misfortune upon them because they have transgressed against me; though I have saved 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, but they howled upon their beds; they quarrel over wheat and wine, and they have rebelled against me. |
| [15]And I instructed -- I strengthened their arms, And concerning Me they think evil! |
[15]Though I have disciplined 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 have perverted themselves for nothing; they have become like a deceitful bow; their princes shall fall by the sword because of the boldness of their tongue; such shall be their entanglement in the land of Egypt |