7:1 When I have healed Israel, then shall
the iniquity of Ephraim be revealed, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they
have wrought falsehood: and a thief shall come in to him, [even] a robber
spoiling in his way;
72 that they may concert together as [men] singing in their heart: I
remember all their wickedness: now have their own counsels compassed them
about; they came before my face.
7:3 They gladdened kings with their wickedness, and princes with their lies.
7:4 They are all adulterers, as an oven glowing with flame for hot-baking,
on account of the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.
7:5 [In] the days of our kings, the princes began to be inflamed with wine:
he stretched out his hand with pestilent fellows.
7:6 Wherefore their hearts are inflamed as an oven, while they rage all the
night: Ephraim is satisfied with sleep; the morning is come; he is burnt up
as a flame of fire.
7:7 They are all heated like an oven, and have devoured their judges: all
their kings are fallen; there was not among them one that called on me.
7:8 Ephraim is mixed among his people; Ephraim became a cake not turned.
7:9 Strangers devoured his strength, and he knew [it] not; and grey hairs
came upon him, and he knew [it] not.
7:10 And the pride of Israel shall be brought down before his face: yet they
have not returned to Yehovah their Elohim, neither have they diligently sought
him for all this.
7:11 And Ephraim was as a silly dove, not having a heart: he called to
Egypt, and they went to the Assyrians.
7:12 Whenever they shall go, I will cast my net upon them; I will bring them
down as the birds of the sky, I will chasten them with the rumor of their
[coming] affliction.
7:13 Woe to them! for they have started aside from me: they are cowards; for
they have sinned against me: yet I redeemed them, but they spoke falsehoods
against me.
7:14 And their hearts did not cry to me, but they howled on their beds: they
pined for oil and wine.
7:15 They were instructed by me, and I strengthened their arms; and they
devised evils against me.
7:16 They turned aside to that which is not, they became as a bent bow:
their princes shall fall by the sword, by reason of the unbridled state of
their tongue: this is their setting at nought in the land of Egypt. |
7:1 When I would have healed Israel, then
the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for
they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers
spoileth without.
7:2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their
wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my
face.
7:3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with
their lies.
7:4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth
from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
7:5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of
wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
7:6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in
wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a
flaming 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, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake 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 Yehovah their Elohim, nor seek him for all this.
7:11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt,
they go to Assyria.
7:12 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring 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 from me: destruction 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 heart, when they howled upon
their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel
against me.
7:15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, 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 tongue: this
shall be their derision in the land of Egypt. |