7"When I was healing Israel, Ephraim's sin was uncovered, along with Samaria's wickedness. While they craft lying schemes, the thief invades, and the gang of thieves plunders outside.H7495H3478H5771H669H1540H7451H8111H6466H8267H1590H935H1416H6584H23512It never occurs to them that I remember all their sin. Now their actions have caught up with them, and they have my attention.H559H3824H2142H7451H4611H5437H64403They please the king with their evil, and the princes with their dishonesty.H4428H8055H7451H8269H35854All of them are adulterers?they burn like an oven prepared by the baker, who has ceased stoking it until the dough is leavened.H5003H8574H1197H644H7673H5782H3888H1217H25565"On the king's festival day the princes got drunk from wine, so the king joined the mockers.H3117H4428H8269H2470H2534H3196H4900H3027H39456For they have stirred up themselves like an oven as they lie in ambush. Their baker sleeps through the night; in the morning, the oven will be blazing like a fire.H7126H3820H8574H693H644H3463H3915H1242H1197H3852H7847They all burn like an oven; they have consumed their judges; all their kings have fallen?not even one of them calls on me.H2552H8574H398H8199H4428H5307H71218"Ephraim compromises with the nations; he's a half-baked cake.H669H1101H5971H669H5692H20159Foreigners have consumed his strength, and he hasn't noticed. Furthermore, his head is sprinkled with gray hair, but he doesn't realize it.H2114H398H3581H3045H7872H2236H304510Israel's arrogance testifies against him; but they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him in all of this.H1347H3478H6030H6440H7725H3068H430H124511"Ephraim is also like a silly dove, lacking sense: They call out to Egypt, and turn toward Assyria.H669H6601H3123H3820H7121H4714H1980H80412When they go, I'll cast my net over them. I'll bring them down, as one shoots birds in the sky. I'll chasten them, as the assembly has already heard.H3212H6566H7568H3381H5775H8064H3256H5712H808813Woe to them?because they have run away from me. Ruin to them?because they have sinned against me. Even though I redeemed them, they spread lies against me.H188H5074H7701H6586H6299H1696H357714They will not cry to me from their heart?instead, they wail on their beds. They gather together to eat and drink, turning away from me.H2199H3820H3213H4904H1481H1715H8492H549315"Though I have taught them and strengthened their arms, nevertheless they plot evil against me.H3256H2388H2220H2803H745116They return?but not to the Most High. They are like a defective weapon. Their princes will fall by the sword because of their raging tongue, and they will be a laughingstock in the land of Egypt."H7725H5920H7423H7198H8269H5307H2719H2195H3956H2097H3933H776H4714
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