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Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 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;
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`When I give healing to Israel, Then revealed is the iniquity of Ephraim, And the wickedness of Samaria, For they have wrought falsehood, And a thief doth come in, Stript off hath a troop in the street,
2 but they do not realize that I remember all their evil deeds. Their sins engulf them; they are always before me.
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And they do not say to their heart, [That] all their evil I have remembered, Now compassed them have their doings, Over-against My face they have been.
3 “They delight the king with their wickedness, the princes with their lies.
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With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies -- princes.
4 They are all adulterers, burning like an oven whose fire the baker need not stir from the kneading of the dough till it rises.
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All of them [are] adulterers, Like a burning oven of a baker, He ceaseth from stirring up after kneading the dough, till its leavening.
5 On the day of the festival of our king the princes become inflamed with wine, and he joins hands with the mockers.
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A day of our king! Princes have polluted themselves [with] the poison of wine, He hath drawn out his hand with scorners.
6 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.
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For they have drawn near, As an oven [is] their heart, In their lying in wait all the night sleep doth their baker, Morning! he is burning as a flaming fire.
7 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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All of them are warm as an oven, And they have devoured their judges, All their kings have fallen, There is none calling unto Me among them.
8 “Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is a flat loaf not turned over.
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Ephraim! among peoples he mixeth himself, Ephraim hath been a cake unturned.
9 Foreigners sap his strength, but he does not realize it. His hair is sprinkled with gray, but he does not notice.
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Devoured have strangers his power, And he hath not known, Also old age hath sprinkled [itself] on him, And he hath not known.
10 Israel’s arrogance testifies against him, but despite all this he does not return to the LORD his God or search for him.
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And humbled hath been the excellency of Israel to his face, And they have not turned back unto Jehovah their God, Nor have they sought Him for all this.
11 “Ephraim is like a dove, easily deceived and senseless— now calling to Egypt, now turning to Assyria.
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And Ephraim is as a simple dove without heart, Egypt they called on -- [to] Asshur they have gone.
12 When they go, I will throw my net over them; I will pull them down like the birds in the sky. When I hear them flocking together, I will catch them.
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When they go I spread over them My net, As the fowl of the heavens I bring them down, I chastise them as their company hath heard.
13 Woe to them, because they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, because they have rebelled against me! I long to redeem them but they speak about me falsely.
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Wo to them, for they wandered from Me, Destruction to them, for they transgressed against Me, And I -- I ransom them, and they have spoken lies against Me,
14 They do not cry out to me from their hearts but wail on their beds. They slash themselves, appealing to their gods for grain and new wine, but they turn away from me.
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And have not cried unto Me with their heart, but howl on their beds, For corn and new wine they assemble themselves, They turn aside against Me.
15 I trained them and strengthened their arms, but they plot evil against me.
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And I instructed -- I strengthened their arms, And concerning Me they think evil!
16 They do not turn to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because of their insolent words. For this they will be ridiculed in the land of Egypt.
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They turn back -- not to the Most High, They have been as a deceitful bow, Fall by sword do their princes, From the insolence of their tongue, This [is] their derision in the land of Egypt!
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