Israel reproved for her manifold sins—Ephraim is mixed among the people.

 WHEN I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.

 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own ^adoings^• have beset them about; they are before my face.

 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneeded the dough, until it be leavened.

 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.

 Ephraim, he hath ^amixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a ^bcake^• not turned.

 ^aStrangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not ^areturn to the LORD their God, nor ^bseek^• him for all this.

 ¶ Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

 When they shall go, I will spread my ^anet^• upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.

 Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: ^adestruction^• unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I ^bhave^{• c}redeemed^• them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

 And they have not ^acried^• unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.

 Though I have ^abound^• and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.

 They return, but not to the ^amost^• High: they are like a ^bdeceitful^• bow: their princes shall ^cfall^• by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.