1 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief comes in, and bands of robbers plunder outside.
2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own deeds have surrounded them; they are before my face.
3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceases to stir the fire after he has kneaded the dough, until it is leavened.
5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scoffers.