1. whenever I would heal Israel, the sins of Ephraim are exposed and the crimes of Samaria revealed. They practice deceit, thieves break into houses, bandits rob in the streets;
2. but they do not realize that I remember all their evil deeds. Their sins engulf them; they are always before me.
3. “They delight the king with their wickedness, the princes with their lies.
4. They are all adulterers, burning like an oven whose fire the baker need not stir from the kneading of the dough till it rises.