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7:1  When I was healing Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they worked deceit; and the thief comes in, and the troop of robbers spoils without.
7:2  And they do not consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness; now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.
7:3  They make the king glad with their wickedness and the princes with their lies.
7:4  They are all adulterers as an oven heated by the baker who shall cease from waking after he has kneaded the dough until it is leavened.
7:5  In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with a wineskin; he stretched out his hand with the scorners.
7:6  For they have made ready their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; their baker sleeps all night; in the morning it burns as a flaming fire.
7:7  They are all hot as an oven and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen; there is no one among them that calls unto me.
7:8  Ephraim, he has mixed himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
7:9  Strangers have devoured his strength, and he does not know it; yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he does not understand.
7:10  And the pride of Israel shall testify to his face, and they have not returned to the LORD their God, nor have they sought him with all this.
7:11  Ephraim also was like a deceived dove, without understanding; they shall call to Egypt, they shall go to Assyria.
7:12  When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them according to what has been heard in their congregations.
7:13  Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction upon them! because they have rebelled against me; though I have ransomed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
7:14  And they have not cried unto me with their heart when they howled upon their beds; they congregated themselves for the wheat and the wine, and they rebelled against me.
7:15  Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet they imagine evil against me.
7:16  They returned, but not to the most High; they were like a deceitful bow; their princes fell by the sword for the arrogance of their tongue; this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.