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1 when I would have healed Israel, The guilt of Ephraim was revealed, the wickedness of Samaria: They practiced falsehood. Thieves break in, bandits roam outside. 2 Yet they do not call to mind that I remember all their wickedness. Now their crimes surround them, present to my sight. 3 With their wickedness they make the king rejoice, the princes too, with their treacherous deeds. 4 They are all adulterers, like a blazing oven, Which the baker quits stoking, after the dough’s kneading until its rising. 5 On the day of our king, they made the princes sick with poisoned wine; he extended his hand to the scoffers. 6 For they draw near in ambush with their hearts like an oven. All the night their anger sleeps; in the morning it flares like a blazing fire. 7 They are all heated like ovens, and consume their rulers. All their kings have fallen; none of them calls upon me. Hosea 7:1-7, New American Bible Revised. Copyright © 2010 USCCB.
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