When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.

 2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own ^adoings have beset them about; they are before my face.

 3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

 4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

 5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

 6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

 7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.

 8 Ephraim, he hath ^amixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a ^bcake not turned.

 9 ^aStrangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

 10 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not ^areturn to the Lord their God, nor ^bseek him for all this.

 11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

 12 When they shall go, I will spread my ^anet upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.

 13 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: ^adestruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I ^bhave ^credeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

 14 And they have not ^acried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.

 15 Though I have ^abound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.

 16 They return, but not to the ^amost High: they are like a ^bdeceitful bow: their princes shall ^cfall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.