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¹ when I heal Israel,^(a)
the sins of Ephraim^(b) and the crimes of Samaria^(c)
will be exposed.
For they practice fraud;^(d)
a thief breaks in;
a raiding party pillages outside.^(e)
2 But they never consider that I remember all their evil.^(f)
Now their sins are all around them;^(g)
they are right in front of My face.

³ They please the king with their evil,^(h)
the princes with their lies.^(i)
4 All of them commit adultery;^(j)
they are like an oven heated by a baker
who stops stirring the fire
from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
⁵ On the day of our king,
the princes are sick with the heat of wine^(k)—
there is a conspiracy with traitors.^[a]
6 For they—their hearts like an oven—
draw him into their oven.
Their anger smolders all night;
in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
⁷ All of them are as hot as an oven,^(l)
and they consume their rulers.^(m)
All their kings fall;
not one of them calls on Me.^[b]

⁸ Ephraim has allowed himself to get mixed up with the nations.
Ephraim is unturned bread baked on a griddle.
⁹ Foreigners consume his strength,⁽ⁿ⁾
but he does not notice.^(o)
Even his hair is streaked with gray,
but he does not notice.
¹⁰ Israel's arrogance testifies against them,^[c](p)
yet they do not return to Yahweh their God,^(q)
and for all this, they do not seek Him.

¹¹ So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove;^(r)
they call to Egypt,^(s) and they go to Assyria.^(t)
12 As they are going, I will spread My net over them;^(u)
I will bring them down like birds of the sky.
I will discipline them in accordance
with the news that reaches^[d] their assembly.

¹³ Woe to them,^(v) for they fled from Me;^(w)
destruction to them, for they rebelled against Me!
Though I want to redeem them,^(x)
they speak lies against Me.
¹⁴ They do not cry to Me from their hearts;
rather, they wail on their beds.
They slash themselves^[e](y) for grain and new wine;^(z)
they turn away from Me.
¹⁵ I trained and strengthened their arms,^(aa)
but they plot evil against Me.^(ab)
16 They turn, but not to what is above;^[f]
they are like a faulty bow.^(ac)
Their leaders will fall by the sword
because of the cursing of their tongue.^(ad)
They will be ridiculed for this in the land of Egypt.^(ae)