1 x[ch. 6:4] When I would heal Israel,
the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed,
and the evil deeds ofy[Jer. 23:13] Samaria;
forz[ch. 4:2] they deal falsely;
the thief breaks in,
and the bandits raid outside.
2 But they do not consider
thata[ch. 5:3] I remember all their evil.
NowbPs. 9:16; Prov. 5:22 their deeds surround them;
cPs. 90:8 they are before my face.
3 By their evildver. 5; [Rom. 1:32] they makedver. 5; [Rom. 1:32] the king glad,
and the princes by their treachery.
4 eSee ch. 6:10 They are all adulterers;
they are like a heated oven
whose baker ceases to stir the fire,
from the kneading of the dough
until it is leavened.
5 On the day offver. 3 our king, the princes
became sick with the heat of wine;
he stretched out his hand with mockers.
6 For with hearts like an ovengch. 6:9 they approach their intrigue;
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.
Allhch. 8:4 their kingsi2 Kgs. 15:10, 14, 25, 30 have fallen,
and none of them calls upon me.
8 EphraimjPs. 106:35 mixes himself with the peoples;
Ephraim is a cake not turned.
9 k[ch. 8:7] Strangers devour his strength,
andlIsa. 42:25 he knows it not;
gray hairs are sprinkled upon him,
andlIsa. 42:25 he knows it not.
10 mch. 5:5 The pride of Israel testifies to his face;1Or in his presence
nIsa. 9:13 yet they do not return to the Lord their God,
nor seek him, for all this.
11 Ephraim is like a dove,
och. 4:11 silly and without sense,
calling top[ch. 12:1; 2 Kgs. 17:4] Egypt, going toqSee ch. 5:13 Assyria.
12 As they go,rSee Ezek. 12:13 I will spread over them my net;
I will bring them down like birds of the heavens;
sch. 10:10 I will discipline themtSee Lev. 26:14-39; Deut. 28:15-68 according to the report made to their congregation.
13 uch. 9:12 Woe to them, for they have strayed from me!
Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me!
vch. 13:14 I would redeem them,
butw[ch. 11:12; 12:1; Mic. 6:12] they speak lies against me.
14 xPs. 78:36, 37 They do not cry to me from the heart,
buty[Amos 6:4, 5] they wail upon their beds;
for grain and wine they gash themselves;
they rebel against me.
15 Althoughz[ch. 11:3] I trained and strengthened their arms,
yet they devise evil against me.
16 Theya[ch. 6:1] return, but not upward;1Or to the Most High
they arebPs. 78:57 like a treacherous bow;
their princes shall fall by the sword
because ofcPs. 73:9 the insolence of their tongue.
This shall be their derisiondch. 9:3 in the land of Egypt.