| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1When I would heal Israel, The iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, And the evil deeds of Samaria, For they deal falsely; The thief enters in, Bandits raid outside, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2And they do not consider in their hearts That I remember all their wickedness. Now their deeds are all around them; They are before My face. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3With their wickedness they make the king glad, And the princes with their lies. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They are all adulterers, Like an oven heated by the baker Who ceases to stir up the fire From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; He stretched out his hand with scoffers, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For their hearts are like an oven As they approach their plotting; Their anger smolders all night, In the morning it burns like a flaming fire. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7All of them are hot like an oven, And they consume their rulers; All their kings have fallen. None of them calls on Me. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Ephraim mixes himself with the nations; Ephraim has become a cake not turned. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Strangers devour his strength, Yet he does not know it; Gray hairs also are sprinkled on him, Yet he does not know it. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Though the pride of Israel testifies against him, Yet they have not returned to the LORD their God, Nor have they sought Him, for all this. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11So Ephraim has become like a silly dove, without sense; They call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12When they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them in accordance with the proclamation to their assembly. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction is theirs, for they have rebelled against Me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against Me. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14And they do not cry to Me from their heart When they wail on their beds; For the sake of grain and new wine they assemble themselves, They turn away from Me. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Although I trained and strengthened their arms, Yet they devise evil against Me. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16They turn, but not upward, They are like a deceitful bow; Their princes will fall by the sword Because of the insolence of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt. |
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