1. when I would have healed Israel,The guilt of Ephraim was revealed,the wickedness of Samaria:They practiced falsehood.Thieves break in,bandits roam outside.
2. Yet they do not call to mindthat I remember all their wickedness.Now their crimes surround them,present to my sight.
3. With their wickedness they make the king rejoice,the princes too, with their treacherous deeds.
4. They are all adulterers,like a blazing oven,Which the baker quits stoking,after the dough’s kneading until its rising.