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1 when I would have healed Yisroel,
then the avon (iniquity) of Ephrayim was exposed,
and the ra'ot (crimes) of Shomron;
for they practice sheker;
and the ganav intrudes,
and the bandit robs bachutz (in the street).
2 And they consider not in their levavot
that I remember all their ra'ah;
now their own evil doings surround them;
they are before My face.
3 They make the Melech glad with their ra'ah,
and the sarim (princes) with their lies.
4 They are all no'afim (adulterers),
as an oven heated by the baker,
who ceaseth stirring from the kneading of the batzek (dough),
until its chametz leavening rises.
5 In the Yom Malkeinu
the sarim (princes) have made him sick with the heat of yayin;
he has stretched out his hand with the letzim (mockers).
6 For they have made ready their lev
like an oven, while they lie in wait;
their anger smolders kol halailah;
in the boker it burneth like an eish of flame.
7 They are all hot as an oven,
and have devoured their shofetim;
all their melachim are fallen;
there is none among them that calleth unto Me.
8 Ephrayim, he hath mixed himself among the people;
Ephrayim is a flat cake not turned over.
9 Zarim have devoured his ko'ach,
and he knoweth it not;
yea, gray hairs are sprinkled upon him,
yet he hath no da'as.
10 And the ga'on Yisroel testifieth to his face;
and they do not return to Hashem Eloheihem,
nor seek Him for all this.
11 Ephrayim also is like an easily deceived yonah without sense;
they call to Mitzrayim,
they turn to Assyria.
12 When they shall go, I will spread My reshet (net) upon them;
I will bring them down as the fowls of Shomayim;
I will chastise them, when I hear them congregating.
13 Woe unto them! For they have strayed from Me.
Sod (destruction) unto them because they have committed pesha against Me!
Though I would redeem them,
yet they have spoken kazav (lies) against Me.
14 And they have not cried unto Me with their levavot,
when they wailed upon their beds;
they congregate themselves for dagan and tirosh,
and they depart from Me.
15 Though I have trained and strengthened their zero'ot (arms),
yet do they plot rah against Me.
16 They return, but not to Most High;
they are like a faulty keshet;
their sarim (princes) shall fall by the cherev
for the insolence of their leshon;
this shall be their derision in Eretz Mitzrayim.

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