The Webster Bible WBT
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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.
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whenever I would heal Israel, the sins of Ephraim are exposed and the crimes of Samaria revealed. They practice deceit, thieves break into houses, bandits rob in the streets;
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.
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but they do not realize that I remember all their evil deeds. Their sins engulf them; they are always before me.
3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
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“They delight the king with their wickedness, 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.
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They are all adulterers, burning like an oven whose fire the baker need not stir from the kneading of the dough till it rises.
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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On the day of the festival of our king the princes become inflamed with wine, and he joins hands with the mockers.
6 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.
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Their hearts are like an oven; they approach him with intrigue. Their passion smolders all night; in the morning it blazes like 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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All of them are hot as an oven; they devour their rulers. All their kings fall, and none of them calls on me.
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