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 ambushwith 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.
8. Ephraim is mixed with the nations,Ephraim is an unturned cake.
9. Strangers have consumed his strength,but he does not know it;Gray hairs are strewn on his head,but he takes no notice of it.
10. The arrogance of Israel bears witness against him;yet they do not return to the Lord, their God,nor seek him, despite all this.
11. Ephraim is like a dove,silly and senseless;They call upon Egypt,they go to Assyria.
12. When they go I will spread my net around them,like birds in the air I will bring them down.I will chastise them when I hear of their assembly.
13. Woe to them, for they have strayed from me!Ruin to them, for they have rebelled against me!Though I wished to redeem them,they spoke lies against me.
14. They have not cried to me from their heartswhen they wailed upon their beds;For wheat and wine they lacerated themselves;they rebelled against me.
15. Though I trained and strengthened their arms,yet they devised evil against me.
16. They have again become useless,they have been like a treacherous bow.Their princes shall fall by the swordbecause of the insolence of their tongues;thus they shall be mocked in the land of Egypt.