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| 1"When I was healing Israel, Ephraim's sin was uncovered, along with Samaria's wickedness. While they craft lying schemes, the thief invades, and the gang of thieves plunders outside. | 1when I would heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed, and the evil deeds of Samaria, for they deal falsely; the thief breaks in, and the bandits raid outside. |
| 2It never occurs to them that I remember all their sin. Now their actions have caught up with them, and they have my attention. | 2But they do not consider that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face. |
| 3They please the king with their evil, and the princes with their dishonesty. | 3By their evil they make the king glad, and the princes by their treachery. |
| 4All of them are adulterers— they burn like an oven prepared by the baker, who has ceased stoking it until the dough is leavened. | 4They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven whose baker ceases to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened. |
| 5"On the king's festival day the princes got drunk from wine, so the king joined the mockers. | 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 stirred up themselves like an oven as they lie in ambush. Their baker sleeps through the night; in the morning, the oven will be blazing like a fire. | 6For with hearts like an oven they approach their intrigue; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire. |
| 7They all burn like an oven; they have consumed their judges; all their kings have fallen— not even one of them calls on me. | 7All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen, and none of them calls upon me. |
| 8"Ephraim compromises with the nations; he's a half-baked cake. | 8Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned. |
| 9Foreigners have consumed his strength, and he hasn't noticed. Furthermore, his head is sprinkled with gray hair, but he doesn't realize it. | 9Strangers devour his strength, and he knows it not; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, and he knows it not. |
| 10Israel's arrogance testifies against him; but they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him in all of this. | 10The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him, for all this. |
| 11"Ephraim is also like a silly dove, lacking sense: They call out to Egypt, and turn toward Assyria. | 11Ephraim is like a dove, silly and without sense, calling to Egypt, going to Assyria. |
| 12When they go, I'll cast my net over them. I'll bring them down, as one shoots birds in the sky. I'll chasten them, as the assembly has already heard. | 12As they go, I will spread over them my net; I will bring them down like birds of the heavens; I will discipline them according to the report made to their congregation. |
| 13Woe to them— because they have run away from me. Ruin to them— because they have sinned against me. Even though I redeemed them, they spread lies against me. | 13Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me. |
| 14They will not cry to me from their heart— instead, they wail on their beds. They gather together to eat and drink, turning away from me. | 14They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; for grain and wine they gash themselves; they rebel against me. |
| 15"Though I have taught them and strengthened their arms, nevertheless they plot evil against me. | 15Although I trained and strengthened their arms, yet they devise evil against me. |
| 16They return—but not to the Most High. They are like a defective weapon. Their princes will fall by the sword because of their raging tongue, and they will be a laughingstock in the land of Egypt." | 16They return, but not upward; they are like a treacherous bow; their princes shall fall by the sword because of the insolence of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt. |
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