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
3 They make the king glad with their wickedness and the princes with their lies
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
5 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine he stretched out his hand with scorners
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 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
8 Ephraim he hath mixed himself among the people Ephraim is a cake not turned
9 Strangers have devoured his strength and he knoweth it not yea gray hairs are here and there upon him yet he knoweth not
10 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face and they do not return to the LORD their God nor seek him for all this
11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart they call to Egypt they go to Assyria
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
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
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
15 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms yet do they imagine mischief against me
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
