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7 when I would heal Israel,
the sin of Ephraim is exposed,
as well as the evil deeds of Samaria,
for they practice deceit;
the thief breaks in,
and the marauding band raids outside.
2 But they do not realize in their hearts
that I remember all their evil.
Now their deeds surround them;
they are before my face.
3 By their evil they make the king glad,
and by their lies the princes.
4 They are all adulterers,
like an oven heated by the baker,
who ceases to stir the fire
from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
5 On the day of our king the princes became sick with the heat of wine.
He stretched out his hand with those who were mocking.
6 For with their hearts like an oven,
they approach their intrigue.
Their anger smolders all night;
in the morning it burns like a flaming fire.
7 All of them are hot as an oven,
and they devour those who rule over them.
All their kings have fallen;
none of them calls on me.
8 Ephraim mixes himself among the peoples.
Ephraim is a flat cake that has not been turned over.
9 Foreigners have devoured his strength,
but he does not know it.
Gray hairs are sprinkled on him,
but he does not know it.
10 The pride of Israel testifies against him;
yet they have not returned to Yahweh their God,
nor have they sought him, for all this.
11 Ephraim is like a dove, silly and without sense,
calling to Egypt,
then going to Assyria. 12 When they go, I will spread my net over them,
I will bring them down like the birds of the sky.
I will discipline them
in accordance with the report to their assembly.
13 Woe to them!
For they have strayed from me.
Destruction to them!
For they have rebelled against me!
I would have redeemed them,
but they spoke lies against me.
14 They do not cry to me with their heart,
but they wail on their beds.
They gather together for grain and new wine;
they turn away from me.[fn]
15 Though I trained and strengthened their arms,
yet they plot evil against me.
16 They return,
but not upward.
They are like a slack bow.
Their princes will fall by the sword
because of the insolence of their tongues.
This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.
Instead of They gather together , which the Hebrew text has, some ancient copies and many modern versions have They cut themselves , an allusion to the pagan custom of idol worshipers wounding themselves in the frenzy of prayer.