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7:1  1 Of the vices and wantonness of the people. 12 Of their punishment. When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they have dealt falsely: and the thief cometh in, and the robber spoileth without.
7:2  And they consider not in their hearts, that I remember all their wickedness: now their own inventions have beset them about: they are in my sight.
7:3  They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
7:4  They are all adulterers, and as a very oven heated by the baker, which ceaseth from raising up, and from kneading the dough until it be leavened.
7:5  This is the day of our king: the princes have made him sick with flagons of wine: he stretcheth out his hand to scorners.
7:6  For they have made ready their heart like an oven while they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night: in the morning it burneth as a flame of fire.
7:7  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.
7:8  Ephraim hath mixed himself among the people. Ephraim is as a cake on the hearth not turned.
7:9  Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here, and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
7:10  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.
7:11  Ephraim also is like a dove deceived without heart: they call to Egypt: they go to Assyria.
7:12  But when they shall go, I will spread my net upon them, and draw them down as the fowls of the heaven: I will chastise them as their Congregation hath heard.
7:13  Woe unto them: for they have fled away from me: destruction shall be unto them, because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
7:14  And they have not cried unto me with their hearts, when they howled upon their beds: they assembled themselves for corn, and wine, and they rebel against me.
7:15  Though I have bound and strengthened their arm, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
7:16  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 tongues: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.