[1]When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria. For they have dealt falsely; and a thief comes; a troop of robbers plunders outside.[2]And they do not consider within their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their own doings have surrounded them. They are before My face.[3]They make the king glad with their evil, and the rulers with their lies.[4]They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker; he ceases from stirring after kneading the dough until it is leavened.[5]In the day of our king, the rulers have made themselves sick, inflamed with wine. He stretches out his hand with scorners.[6]For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all night; in the morning it burns like a flaming fire.[7]They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen; not one among them calls unto Me.[8]Ephraim has mixed himself among the peoples. Ephraim is a cake not turned.[9]Strangers have eaten up his strength, yet he does not know it. Yea, gray hairs are sprinkled here and there on him, yet he does not know it.[10]And the pride of Israel testifies to his face. And they do not return to Jehovah their God, nor seek Him for all this.[11]Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart; they call to Egypt; they go to Assyria.[12]When they go, I will spread My net upon them; I will bring them down like the birds of the heavens; I will chastise them, according to the report their congregation heard.[13]Woe to them! For they have fled from Me. Ruin to them! For they have transgressed against Me. Though I redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against Me.[14]And they have not cried to Me with their heart, when they wailed on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and wine; they turn aside from Me.[15]Though I disciplined, I made their arms strong; yet they devise evil against Me.[16]They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a treacherous bow. Their rulers shall fall by the sword from the rage of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.