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1 When I would have healed Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria, for they have committed falsehood, and the thief is come in to steal, the robber is without.
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#3when I would heal Israel, the corruption of Ephraim is revealed, and the wicked deeds of Samaria; for they deal falsely, the thief breaks in, and the bandits raid outside.
2 And lest they may say in their hearts, that I remember all their wickedness: their own devices now have beset them about, they have been done before my face.
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But they do not consider that I remember all their wickedness. Now their deeds surround them, they are before my face.
3 They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and the princes with their lies.
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By their wickedness they make the king glad, and the officials by their treachery.
4 They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker: the city rested a little from the mingling of the leaven, till the whole was leavened.
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They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven, whose baker does not need to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
5 The day of our king, the princes began to be mad with wine: he stretched out his hand with scorners.
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On the day of our king the officials became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.
6 Because they have applied their heart like an oven, when he laid snares for them: he slept all the night baking them, in the morning he himself was heated as a flaming fire.
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For they are kindled like an oven, their heart burns within them; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
7 They were all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges: all their kings have fallen: there is none amongst them that calleth unto me.
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All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen; none of them calls upon me.
8 Ephraim himself is mixed among the nations: Ephraim is become as bread baked under the ashes, that is not turned.
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Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knew it not: yea, grey hairs also are spread about upon him, and he is ignorant of it.
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Foreigners devour his strength, but he does not know it; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, but he does not know it.
10 And the pride of Israel shall be humbled before his face: and they have not returned to the Lord their God, nor have they sought him in all these.
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Israel's pride testifies against him; yet they do not return to the Lord their God, or seek him, for all this.
11 And Ephraim is become as a dove that is decoyed, not having a heart: they called upon Egypt, they went to the Assyrians.
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Ephraim has become like a dove, silly and without sense; they call upon Egypt, they go to Assyria.
12 And when they shall go, I will spread my net upon them: I will bring them down as the fowl of the air, I will strike them as their congregation hath heard.
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As they go, I will cast my net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the air; I will discipline them according to the report made to their assembly.
13 Woe to them, for they have departed from me: they shall be wasted because they have transgressed against me: and I redeemed them: and they have spoken lies against me.
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Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me.
14 And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howled in their beds: they have thought upon wheat and wine, they are departed from me.
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They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; they gash themselves for grain and wine; they rebel against me.
15 And I have chastised them, and strengthened their arms: and they have imagined evil against me.
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It was I who trained and strengthened their arms, yet they plot evil against me.
16 They returned, that they might be without yoke: they became like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of their tongue. This is their derision in the land of Egypt.
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They turn to that which does not profit; they have become like a defective bow; their officials shall fall by the sword because of the rage of their tongue. So much for their babbling in the land of Egypt.
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