6. For they have used their heart like an oven, while he laid snares for them; he slept through the night baking them, and by morning he himself was heated like a burning fire.
7. They have all become hot like an oven, and they have devoured their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one who calls to me among them.
8. Ephraim himself has been mingled with the nations. Ephraim has become like bread, baked under ashes, that has not been turned over.
9. Strangers have devoured his strength, and he did not know it. And grey hairs also have spread across him, and he is ignorant of it.