1. “When I would have healed Israel,Then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered,And the wickedness of Samaria.For they have committed fraud;A thief comes in;A band of robbers takes spoil outside.
2. They do not consider in their heartsThat I remember all their wickedness;Now their own deeds have surrounded them;They are before My face.
3. They make a king glad with their wickedness,And princes with their lies.
4. “They are all adulterers.Like an oven heated by a baker—He ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough,Until it is leavened.
5. In the day of our kingPrinces have made him sick, inflamed with wine;He stretched out his hand with scoffers.
6. They prepare their heart like an oven,While they lie in wait;Their baker sleeps all night;In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.
7. They are all hot, like an oven,And have devoured their judges;All their kings have fallen.None among them calls upon Me.
8. “Ephraim has mixed himself among the peoples;Ephraim is a cake unturned.