1 “Whenever I would heal Yisra’ĕl, then the crookedness of Ephrayim is uncovered, and the evil deeds of Shomeron. For they have wrought falsehood, and a thief comes in, a band of robbers raids outside.
2 “And they do not say to their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their own deeds have surrounded them, they have been before Me.
3 “With their evil they make a sovereign glad, and rulers with their lies.
4 “All of them are adulterers, as an oven heated by a baker, who ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough, until it is leavened.
5 “In the day of our sovereign rulers became sick, inflamed with wine. He extended his hand with scoffers.
6 “For they have drawn near, their heart is like an oven. While they lie in wait all the night their baker sleeps. In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.