2 They do not realizethat I remember all of their wicked deeds.Their evil deeds have now surrounded them;their sinful deeds are always before me.
3 The royal advisers delight the king with their evil schemes,the princes make him glad with their lies.
4 They are all like bakers,they are like a smoldering oven;they are like a baker who does not stoke the fireuntil the kneaded dough is ready for baking.
5 At the celebration of their king, his princes become inflamed with wine;they conspire with evildoers.
6 They approach him, all the while plotting against him.Their hearts are like an oven;their anger smolders all night long,but in the morning it bursts into a flaming fire.
7 All of them are blazing like an oven;they devour their rulers.All of their kings fall – and none of them call on me!
8 Ephraim has mixed itself like flour among the nations;Ephraim is like a ruined cake of bread that is scorched on one side.