1. “Whenever I would heal Yisra’ĕl, then the crookedness of Ephrayim is uncovered, and the evil deeds of Shomeron. For they have wrought falsehood, and a thief comes in, a band of robbers raids outside.
2. “And they do not say to their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their own deeds have surrounded them, they have been before Me.
3. “With their evil they make a sovereign glad, and rulers with their lies.