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7 : 1 When I would heal Israel,the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed,and the evil deeds ofSamaria;forthey deal falsely;the thief breaks in,and the bandits raid outside.
7 : 2 But they do not considerthatI remember all their evil.Nowtheir deeds surround them;they are before my face.
7 : 3 By their evilthey makethe king glad,and the princes by their treachery.
7 : 4 They are all adulterers;they are like a heated ovenwhose baker ceases to stir the fire,from the kneading of the doughuntil it is leavened.
7 : 5 On the day ofour king, the princesbecame sick with the heat of wine;he stretched out his hand with mockers.
7 : 6 For with hearts like an oventhey approach their intrigue;all night their anger smolders;in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
7 : 7 All of them are hot as an oven,and they devour their rulers.Alltheir kingshave fallen,and none of them calls upon me.
7 : 8 Ephraimmixes himself with the peoples;Ephraim is a cake not turned.
7 : 9 Strangers devour his strength,andhe knows it not;gray hairs are sprinkled upon him,andhe knows it not.
7 : 10 The pride of Israel testifies to his face;yet they do not return to theLordtheir God,nor seek him, for all this.
7 : 11 Ephraim is like a dove,silly and without sense,calling toEgypt, going toAssyria.
7 : 12 As they go,I will spread over them my net;I will bring them down like birds of the heavens;I will discipline themaccording to the report made to their congregation.
7 : 13 Woe to them, for they have strayed from me!Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me!I would redeem them,butthey speak lies against me.
7 : 14 They do not cry to me from the heart,butthey wail upon their beds;for grain and wine they gash themselves;they rebel against me.
7 : 15 AlthoughI trained and strengthened their arms,yet they devise evil against me.
7 : 16 Theyreturn, but not upward;they arelike a treacherous bow;their princes shall fall by the swordbecause ofthe insolence of their tongue.This shall be their derisionin the land of Egypt.