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1 In My healing of Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they practice deceit, and a thief comes in; bandits raid in the street. 2 And they do not tell their hearts that all their evil I remember. Now their deeds have surrounded them; they are before My face. 3 With their evil they make glad the king, and with their lies—princes. 4 They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker, who ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough until it is leavened. 5 On the day of our king, the princes became sick, raging from the wine; he stretched out his hand with the mockers. 6 For they approach; like an oven is their heart in ambush; all night their baker is sleeping; in the morning it burns like a fire of flame. 7 All of them are hot like an oven, and they devour their judges; all their kings have fallen; no one among them calls to Me. Hosea 7:1-7, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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