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Ephraim's Iniquity
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.
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.
Its people don’t realize
that I am watching them.
Their sinful deeds are all around them,
and I see them all.
that I am watching them.
Their sinful deeds are all around them,
and I see them all.
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.
“The people entertain the king with their wickedness,
and the princes laugh at their lies.
and the princes laugh at their lies.
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
They are all adulterers,
always aflame with lust.
They are like an oven that is kept hot
while the baker is kneading the dough.
always aflame with lust.
They are like an oven that is kept hot
while the baker is kneading the dough.
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.
On royal holidays, the princes get drunk with wine,
carousing with those who mock them.
carousing with those who mock them.
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
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.
Burning like an oven,
they consume their leaders.
They kill their kings one after another,
and no one cries to me for help.
they consume their leaders.
They kill their kings one after another,
and no one cries to me for help.
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.
“The people of Israel mingle with godless foreigners,
making themselves as worthless as a half-baked cake!
making themselves as worthless as a half-baked cake!
Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
Worshiping foreign gods has sapped their strength,
but they don’t even know it.
Their hair is gray,
but they don’t realize they’re old and weak.
but they don’t even know it.
Their hair is gray,
but they don’t realize they’re old and weak.
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
Their arrogance testifies against them,
yet they don’t return to the LORD their God
or even try to find him.
yet they don’t return to the LORD their God
or even try to find him.
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.
“The people of Israel have become like silly, witless doves,
first calling to Egypt, then flying to Assyria for help.
first calling to Egypt, then flying to Assyria for help.
Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
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.
“What sorrow awaits those who have deserted me!
Let them die, for they have rebelled against me.
I wanted to redeem them,
but they have told lies about me.
Let them die, for they have rebelled against me.
I wanted to redeem them,
but they have told lies about me.
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.
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.
I trained them and made them strong,
yet now they plot evil against me.
yet now they plot evil against me.
Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
They look everywhere except to the Most High.
They are as useless as a crooked bow.
Their leaders will be killed by their enemies
because of their insolence toward me.
Then the people of Egypt
will laugh at them.
They are as useless as a crooked bow.
Their leaders will be killed by their enemies
because of their insolence toward me.
Then the people of Egypt
will laugh at them.
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.