6. They approach like a hot oven, their hearts burning.Throughout the night, their anger smolders;in the morning, it continues to burn like a flaming fire.
7. All of them are hot as an oven;they devour their rulers.All their kings have fallen;none of them call upon me.
8. Ephraim mixes himself among the people;Ephraim is like flatbread that is cooked on only one side.
9. Strangers have eaten up his strength,yet he doesn’t know it;gray hairs are sprinkled here and there upon him,yet he doesn’t know it.
10. Israel’s pride is a witness against him;yet they don’t return to the Lord their God,or seek him because of all this.
11. Ephraim has become like a dove,silly and without common sense;they call upon Egypt; they go to Assyria.
12. As they go, I will spread my net over them;like birds in the sky, I will bring them down;I will judge them according to the report made to their assembly.
13. Doom to them, for they have strayed from me;destruction will be their lot because they have rebelled against me.I would redeem them,but they speak lies against me.