1
When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was disclosed, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, [and] the troop of robbers strippeth without.
2
And they consider not in their hearts [that] I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them around; they are before my face.
3
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
4
They [are] all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, [who] ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it is leavened.
5
In the day of our king the princes have made [him] sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
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For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
7
They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: [there is] none among them that calleth to me.
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