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when I would heal Israel, Then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, And the evil deeds of Samaria, For they work falsehood; The thief enters in; Raiders ransack outside, 

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And they do not say to their hearts _That_ I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; They are before My face. 

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With their evil they make the king glad, And the princes with their deceptions. 

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They are all adulterers, Like an oven heated by the baker Who ceases to stir up _the fire_ From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened. 

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On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; He stretched out his hand with scoffers, 

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For their hearts are like an oven _As_ they draw near in their plotting; Their anger smolders all night; In the morning it burns like a flaming fire. 

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All of them are hot like an oven, And they devour their judges; All their kings have fallen. None of them calls on Me. 

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Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples; Ephraim has become a cake not turned. 

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Strangers devour his power, Yet he does not know _it_; Gray hairs also are sprinkled on him, Yet he does not know _it_. 

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So the pride of Israel answers against him, Yet they have not returned to Yahweh their God, Nor have they sought Him, for all this. 

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So Ephraim has become like a silly dove, without a heart _of wisdom_; They call to Egypt; they go to Assyria. 

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When they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them in accordance with the report to their congregation. 

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Woe to them, for they have fled from Me! Destruction is theirs, for they have transgressed against Me! And I would redeem them, but they speak lies against Me. 

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And they do not cry out to Me in their heart When they wail on their beds; For the sake of grain and new wine they gather together as sojourners; They depart from Me. 

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Although I disciplined _and_ strengthened their arms, Yet they devise evil against Me. 

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They turn, _but_ not upward; They are like a deceitful bow; Their princes will fall by the sword Because of the indignation of their tongue. This _will be_ their scoffing in the land of Egypt.