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7:1  when I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim and the crimes of Samaria will be exposed. For they practice fraud; a thief breaks in; a raiding party pillages outside.
7:2  But they never consider that I remember all their evil. Now their actions are all around them; they are right in front of my face.
7:3  They please the king with their evil, the princes with their lies.
7:4  All of them commit adultery; they are like an oven heated by a baker who stops stirring the fire from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
7:5  On the day of our king, the princes are sick with the heat of wine— there is a conspiracy with traitors.
7:6  For they—their hearts like an oven— draw him into their oven. Their anger smolders all night; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
7:7  All of them are as hot as an oven, and they consume their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls on me.
7:8  Ephraim has allowed himself to get mixed up with the nations. Ephraim is unturned bread baked on a griddle.
7:9  Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not notice.
7:10  Israel’s arrogance testifies against them, yet they do not return to the Lord their God, and for all this, they do not seek him.
7:11  So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove; they call to Egypt, and they go to Assyria.
7:12  As they are going, I will spread my net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the sky. I will discipline them in accordance with the news that reaches their assembly.
7:13  Woe to them, for they fled from me; destruction to them, for they rebelled against me! Though I want to redeem them, they speak lies against me.
7:14  They do not cry to me from their hearts; rather, they wail on their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine; they turn away from me.
7:15  I trained and strengthened their arms, but they plot evil against me.
7:16  They turn, but not to what is above; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because of their insolent tongue. They will be ridiculed for this in the land of Egypt.