1 when I would have healed Israel,The guilt of Ephraim was revealed,the wickedness of Samaria:They practiced falsehood.Thieves break in,bandits roam outside.
2 Yet they do not call to mindthat I remember all their wickedness.Now their crimes surround them,present to my sight.
3 With their wickedness they make the king rejoice,the princes too, with their treacherous deeds.
4 They are all adulterers,like a blazing oven,Which the baker quits stoking,after the dough’s kneading until its rising.
5 On the day of our king,they made the princes sick with poisoned wine;he extended his hand to the scoffers.
6 For they draw near in ambushwith their hearts like an oven.All the night their anger sleeps;in the morning it flares like a blazing fire.