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7:1  When I would heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed, and the wickedness of Samaria. For they deal deceitfully; the thief breaks in; the robbers raid outside,
7:2  but they did not consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds surround them; 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, like an oven heated by a baker, who ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough until it is leavened.
7:5  On the day of our king the princes made him sick from the heat of wine. He stretched out his hand with scorners.
7:6  For they are kindled like an oven. Their heart burns within them; their anger smolders all night; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
7:7  They are all hot as an oven, and they devour their judges. All their kings have fallen, and none of them calls to Me.
7:8  Ephraim mixes himself with the people. Ephraim is a cake not turned.
7:9  Foreigners devour his strength, but he does not know it. Gray hairs are here and there upon him, but he does not know it.
7:10  The pride of Israel testifies against him, but they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek Him for all this.
7:11  Ephraim is like a dove, silly and without sense; they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
7:12  Wherever they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like the birds of the sky; I will discipline them according to the report to their congregation.
7:13  Woe to them, for they have fled from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redeem them, yet they speak lies against Me.
7:14  They do not cry to Me with their heart when they howl on their beds. They gather together for grain and wine, they rebel against Me.
7:15  Though I trained and strengthened their arms, yet they devise mischief against Me.
7:16  They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a loose bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.