7 1 when I would heal Israel,

the corruption of Ephraim is revealed,

and the wicked deeds of Samaria;

for they deal falsely,

the thief breaks in,

and the bandits raid outside.

2 But they do not consider

that I remember all their wickedness.

Now their deeds surround them,

they are before my face.

3 By their wickedness they make the king glad,

and the officials by their treachery.

4 They are all adulterers;

they are like a heated oven,

whose baker does not need to stir the fire,

from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

5 On the day of our king the officials

became sick with the heat of wine;

he stretched out his hand with mockers.

6 For they are kindleda like an oven, their heart burns within them;

all night their anger smolders;

in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

7 All of them are hot as an oven,

and they devour their rulers.

All their kings have fallen;

none of them calls upon me.

8 Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples;

Ephraim is a cake not turned.

9 Foreigners devour his strength,

but he does not know it;

gray hairs are sprinkled upon him,

but he does not know it.

10 Israel’s pride testifies againstb him;

yet they do not return to the Lord their God,

or seek him, for all this.