| Berean Study Bible | English Standard Version |
| 1When I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim will be exposed, as well as the crimes of Samaria. For they practice deceit and thieves break in; bandits raid in the streets. | 1when I would heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed, and the evil deeds of Samaria, for they deal falsely; the thief breaks in, and the bandits raid outside. |
| 2But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face. | 2But they do not consider that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face. |
| 3They delight the king with their evil, and the princes with their lies. | 3By their evil they make the king glad, and the princes by their treachery. |
| 4They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough. | 4They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven whose baker ceases to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened. |
| 5The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him. | 5On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers. |
| 6For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire. | 6For with hearts like an oven they approach their intrigue; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire. |
| 7All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings fall; not one of them calls upon Me. | 7All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen, and none of them calls upon me. |
| 8Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is an unturned cake. | 8Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned. |
| 9Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know. | 9Strangers devour his strength, and he knows it not; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, and he knows it not. |
| 10Israel’s arrogance testifies against them, yet they do not return to the LORD their God; despite all this, they do not seek Him. | 10The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him, for all this. |
| 11So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove—calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria. | 11Ephraim is like a dove, silly and without sense, calling to Egypt, going to Assyria. |
| 12As they go, I will spread My net over them; I will bring them down like birds of the air. I will chastise them when I hear them flocking together. | 12As they go, I will spread over them my net; I will bring them down like birds of the heavens; I will discipline them according to the report made to their congregation. |
| 13Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redeem them, they speak lies against Me. | 13Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me. |
| 14They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me. | 14They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; for grain and wine they gash themselves; they rebel against me. |
| 15Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil against Me. | 15Although I trained and strengthened their arms, yet they devise evil against me. |
| 16They turn, but not to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword for the cursing of their tongue; for this they will be ridiculed in the land of Egypt. | 16They return, but not upward; they are like a treacherous bow; their princes shall fall by the sword because of the insolence of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt. |
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