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When I would have healed Israel , the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria , for they have committed falsehood , and the thief is come in to steal, the robber is without.
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And lest they may say in their hearts, that I remember all their wickedness : their own devices now have beset them about, they have been done before my face .
3
They have made the king glad with their wickedness : and the princes with their lies.
4
They are all adulterers , like an oven heated by the baker : the city rested a little from the mingling of the leaven, till the whole was leavened.
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The day of our king, the princes began to be mad with wine : he stretched out his hand with scorners.
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Because they have applied their heart like an oven , when he laid snares for them: he slept all the night baking them, in the morning he himself was heated as a flaming fire .
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They were all heated like an oven , and have devoured their judges : all their kings have fallen : there is none amongst them that calleth unto me.
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Ephraim himself is mixed among the nations: Ephraim is become as bread baked under the ashes, that is not turned .
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Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knew it not: yea, grey hairs also are spread about upon him, and he is ignorant of it.
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And the pride of Israel shall be humbled before his face : and they have not returned to the Lord their God , nor have they sought him in all these.
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And Ephraim is become as a dove that is decoyed, not having a heart : they called upon Egypt , they went to the Assyrians.
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And when they shall go , I will spread my net upon them: I will bring them down as the fowl of the air , I will strike them as their congregation hath heard .
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Woe to them, for they have departed from me: they shall be wasted because they have transgressed against me: and I redeemed them : and they have spoken lies against me.
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And they have not cried to me with their heart , but they howled in their beds : they have thought upon wheat and wine, they are departed from me.
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And I have chastised them, and strengthened their arms : and they have imagined evil against me.
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They returned , that they might be without yoke: they became like a deceitful bow : their princes shall fall by the sword , for the rage of their tongue . This is their derision in the land of Egypt .