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.
4. “All of them are adulterers, as an oven heated by a baker, who ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough, until it is leavened.
5. “In the day of our sovereign rulers became sick, inflamed with wine. He extended his hand with scoffers.
6. “For they have drawn near, their heart is like an oven. While they lie in wait all the night their baker sleeps. In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.
7. “All of them are as hot as an oven, and they consumed their rulers. All their sovereigns have fallen – not one among them calls on Me.