| 007:001 |
When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered,
and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief
cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without. |
| 007:002 |
And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness:
now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face. |
| 007:003 |
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with
their lies. |
| 007:004 |
They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth
from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened. |
| 007:005 |
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles
of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners. |
| 007:006 |
For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie
in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth
as a flaming fire. |
| 007:007 |
They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their
kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me. |
| 007:008 |
Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake
not turned. |
| 007:009 |
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray
hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. |
| 007:010 |
And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return
to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this. |
| 007:011 |
Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt,
they go to Assyria. |
| 007:012 |
When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them
down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation
hath heard. |
| 007:013 |
Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because
they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they
have spoken lies against me. |
| 007:014 |
And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled
upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel
against me. |
| 007:015 |
Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine
mischief against me. |
| 007:016 |
They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow:
their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this
shall be their derision in the land of Egypt. |
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