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7 when I would fain heal Israel,
then Ephraim’s guilt is clear,
Samaria’s crimes appear.
Thieves break into houses,
bandits roam abroad.
2 No one of them ever reflects
that I will punish all their crime,
that their besetting sins
are ever in my sight.
3 In malice they amuse their king,
in treachery their princes,
4 while anger breathes in all of them
like an oven glowing,
that the baker ceases stirring
till the kneaded dough is leavened
5 On the birthday of “our king”
the princes heat themselves with wine,
revelling with loose fellows, traitorous men,
6 their secret hearts all hot
like ovens with their plot;
all night the intrigue will sleep,
but in the morning out it blazes,
glowing like an oven;
7 they consume their rulers,
all their kings collapse–
not one calls to me.
8 Ephraim allows himself
to be mixed up with foreigners;
Ephraim has become a cake
unturned as it was baked.
9 Foreigners eat away his strength,
unknown to him;
grey hairs are on him here and there,
unknown to him.
10 [[Israel’s pride shall confront them, and yet they will not come back to the Eternal their God, nor seek him, in spite of it all.]]
11 Ephraim is like a silly, simple dove,
crying to Egypt, flying to Assyria;
but as they fly I fling my net on them,
and bring them down like a bird,
punishing them for their misdeeds.
13 Woe betide them for forsaking me!
Death to them for deserting me!
Though it was I who redeemed them,
they have lied to me;
14 they never put their heart into their prayers,
but howl away for corn and wine
beside their altars;
these wilful rebels of mine
15 (though it was I who made them strong)
plan evil, contrary to me;
16 they turn to Baal.
They are like a bow that swerves.
So, for the insolence of their talk
[[their bravado about Egypt]],
their leaders perish by the sword.