^{1 Ref} 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.

^{2 Ref} 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 Ref} They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

^{4 Ref} 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 Ref} In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

^{6 Ref} 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 Ref} 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.