1. When I would heal Israel,the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed,and the evil deeds of Samaria;for they deal falsely;the thief breaks in,and the bandits raid outside.
2. But they do not considerthat I remember all their evil.Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face.
3. By their evil they make the king glad,and the princes by their treachery.
4. They are all adulterers;they are like a heated ovenwhose baker ceases to stir the fire,from the kneading of the doughuntil it is leavened.
5. On the day of our king, the princesbecame sick with the heat of wine;he stretched out his hand with mockers.
6. For with hearts like an oven they approach their intrigue;all night their anger smolders;in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
7. All of them are hot as an oven,and they devour their rulers.All their kings have fallen,and none of them calls upon me.
8. Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples;Ephraim is a cake not turned.