VII. When I would have healed Israel,

Then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the * awickedness of bSamaria:

For they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in,

And cthe troop of robbers * dspoileth without.

2  And they * consider not in their hearts

That I remember all their awickedness:

Now etheir own doings have beset them about;

They are fbefore my face.

3  gThey make the king glad with their awickedness,

And the princes gwith their lies.

4  hThey are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker,

* Who ceaseth * from raising after he hath ikneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

5  In the day kof our king the princes have made him sick * with lbottles of wine;

He stretched out his hand with scorners.

6  For they have * made ready their heart olike an oven, whiles mthey lie in wait:

nTheir baker sleepeth all the night;

In nothe morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

7  They are all hot as an oven,

And have devoured their judges;

pAll their kings qare fallen:

There is rnone among them that calleth unto me.

8  Ephraim, she hath mixed himself among the people;

Ephraim is a cake not turned.

9  tStrangers have devoured his strength, uand he knoweth it not:

Yea, gray hairs are * here and there upon him, uyet he knoweth not.

10  And vthe pride of Israel testifieth to his face:

And wthey do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him for all this.

11  xEphraim also is like a ysilly dove, without heart:

xzaThey call to Egypt, abthey go to Assyria.

12  When they shall go, cI will spread my net upon them;

I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven;

dI will chastise them, eas their congregation hath heard.

13  Woe unto them! for they have fled from me:

* fDestruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me:

Though gI have redeemed them, yet they have hspoken lies against me.

14  And ithey have not cried unto me with their heart,

When they howled jupon their beds:

They assemble themselves for corn and kwine,

And they rebel against me.

15  Though I * have bound and lstrengthened their arms,

Yet do they imagine mischief against me.

16  They return, but not to mthe most High:

They are nlike a deceitful bow:

Their princes shall fall by the sword ofor the rage of their tongue:

This shall be their derision pin the land of Egypt.