then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered,
    also the wickedness of Samaria;
    for they commit falsehood,
    and the thief enters in,
    and the gang of robbers ravages outside.
² They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness.
    Now their own deeds have engulfed 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.
    They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring,
    from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.
⁵ On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine.
    He joined his hand with mockers.
⁶ For they have prepared their heart like an oven,
    while they lie in wait.
    Their baker sleeps all the night.
    In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.
⁷ They are all hot as an oven,
    and devour their judges.
All their kings have fallen.
    There is no one among them who calls to me.
⁸ Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations.
    Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.
⁹ Strangers have devoured his strength,
    and he doesn’t realize it.
Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him,
    and he doesn’t realize it.
¹⁰ The pride of Israel testifies to his face;
    yet they haven’t returned to Yahweh their God,
    nor sought him, for all this.

¹¹ “Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding.
    They call to Egypt.
    They go to Assyria.
¹² When they go, I will spread my net on them.
    I will bring them down like the birds of the sky.
    I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.
¹³ Woe to them!
    For they have wandered from me.
Destruction to them!
    For they have trespassed against me.
Though I would redeem them,
    yet they have spoken lies against me.
¹⁴ They haven’t cried to me with their heart,
    but they howl on their beds.
They assemble themselves for grain and new wine.
    They turn away from me.
¹⁵ Though I have taught and strengthened their arms,
    yet they plot evil against me.
¹⁶ They return, but not to the Most High.
    They are like a faulty bow.
    Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue.
    This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.