1. when I would heal Israel, and the corruption of Ephraim is revealed, and the wicked deeds of Samaria; because they deal in falsehood, the thief breaks in, and the bandit raids the outside.
2. But they did not consider that I remember all their wickedness. Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face.
3. By their wickedness they make the king glad, and the officials by their treacheries.
4. All of them commit adultery, like a burning oven whose baker has stopped from stirring the fire, and from kneading the dough until it is leavened.
5. On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.
6. Because 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. All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen; there is none who calls to me amongst them.
8. Ephraim mixes himself with the nations; Ephraim is a bread cake not turned over.
9. Foreigners devour his strength, and he does not know it; mold is also sprinkled upon him, and he does not know it.
10. The pride of Israel testifies against him— they do not return to Yahweh their God; they do not seek him for all of this.