¹² But thou shouldest not have looked^◦ on in the day of thy brother, in the day that he became a foreigner; and thou shouldest not have·​·been·​·glad over the sons of Judah in the day they perished; and thou shouldest not have magnified thy mouth in the day of adversity.

¹ When^◦ I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was revealed, and the evils of Samaria; for they work falsely; and the thief comes·​·in, and the troop attacks outside.

² And they say not^▵ in their hearts that I remember all their evil; now their own actions have turned· them ·around; they are in·​·front·​·of My face.

³ They make· the king ·glad with their evil, and princes with their denials.

⁴ All of them are adulterers, like^▵ a burning oven of the baker, who ceases from stirring, from kneading the dough until it be leavened.

⁵ In the day of our king the princes have become sick with the fury from wine; he drew forth his hand with^◦ scorners.

⁶ For they have offered their heart as an oven, while they set·​·an·​·ambush; their baker is sleeping all the night; in the morning it^◦ burns as a flaming fire.

⁷ All of them are· as ·hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen; there is none among^◦ them that calls unto^▵ Me.

⁸ Ephraim, he^◦ has mixed himself among^◦ the people; Ephraim is a cake^◦ not^▵ turned.

⁹ Strangers have devoured his power, and he^◦ knows it not; yes^◦, gray·​·hairs are sprinkled on^◦ him, and he^◦ knows it not.

¹⁰ And the pride of Israel answers to his face; and they do not return to^▵ Jehovah their God, nor seek Him in all this.

¹¹ Ephraim also is like^◦ a silly dove without^▵ heart; they call·​·to Egypt, they go^◦ to Assyria.

¹² As^◦ they shall go, I will spread My net upon them; I will bring· them ·down as the fowls of the heavens; I will chastise them, at the hearing of their congregation.

¹³ Woe to them^◦! for they have fled·​·away from Me; devastation for them^◦! for they have transgressed against Me: and I^▵ have redeemed^◦ them^◦, and they have spoken lies against Me.

¹⁴ And they have not cried to^▵ Me with their heart, when^◦ they howled on their beds; they league·​·together on grain and must^*, they turn·​·aside against^◦ Me.

¹⁵ And I^◦ have chastened them and made· their arms ·firm, and they think evil toward^▵ Me.

¹⁶ They return, but not above; they become as a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword from the indignation of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.