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7 ‎[1] **When I will heal Israel, **when I think of remedying their miserable state, **the iniquity of Ephraim and the evildoing of Samaria will be revealed, because they acted falsely; a thief comes in **the house,** and the troop raids outside. **The corruption continually appears everywhere, in open as well as hidden places.
‎[2] **Let them not say to their heart:** **I have remembered all their evildoing.** They will remain unaware that God is judging their actions.** Now, their own **evil**doings have surrounded them,** and **they, **their wicked acts,** are **revealed **before My face.**
‎[3] The people of the kingdom do not complain about the corruption. On the contrary, **with their evildoing they gladden a king, and** they delight **princes with their lies. **Deceit, lies, evildoing, and iniquity have become part of accepted conversation in high society. They discuss all these matters in pleasant tones, even with amusement.
‎[4] **All of them are adulterers. **Their unabated lust for adultery blazes **like an oven ignited by the baker; **and if** he will cease from arousal,** if their passions are calmed,** **it will only be for a short amount of time, like the time that passes **from **the** kneading **of** dough until it is leavened, **which is not long.
‎[5] On** the day of **celebrating** our king **on the anniversary of his birth or ascension, **princes grew ill from the heat of **all the **wine **they drank, and out of drunkenness,** he,** the king himself,** extends his hand to be with buffoons **and scoffers.
‎[6] **For in their ambush, they prepared**** their heart like an oven. Their baker sleeps all night, **while the oven’s fire is kept low, but **in the morning it burns like a **large,** blazing fire.**
‎[7] **They all grow hot like an oven **through their increasing intrigues, **and **they **devour their judges, **and as a result, **all their kings have fallen. **Most of the royal houses of the Kingdom of Israel did not last beyond a second generation. Many of the kings seized the throne by force, with their own heirs being overthrown in turn, and among all of these usurpers, **no one among them calls to Me. **The monarchs may change, but the behavior remains the same.
‎[8] **Ephraim, he will assimilate among the peoples; Ephraim is like a cake not turned **while baking on the coals, and is therefore undercooked on top and burnt on the bottom. Nothing good or useful emerges from the Israelite ovens.
‎[9] **Strangers devoured his strength, and he does not know** how much he has become weakened by other nations, nor does he realize the extent to which he has absorbed foreign influences. **Gray hair has been cast upon him, and he does not know. **The kingdom is declining and collapsing, and is vulnerable to parasites, like an exhausted old man who is unaware of what is happening to him.
‎[10] **Israel’s pride is suffering, **and it is** **recognizable** on his face, but they did not return to the Lord their God, and they did not seek Him, despite all this. **
‎[11] **Ephraim was like a foolish dove **that flies in one direction and then in another** without understanding **where it is going. **They called upon Egypt **to somehow forge diplomatic** **relations,** **and** to Assyria,** the Egyptians’ rival, **they went,** but without a clear strategy.
‎[12] **When they go, I will spread My net upon them **to trap them;** like the bird of the heavens I will take them down **to earth, and they will no longer be able to fly;** I will chastise them,**** **and they will be **like an adage for their congregation.**
‎[13] **Woe to them, as they have wandered from Me; pillage **will wait** for them, as they rebelled against Me. I would redeem them, but they have spoken lies against Me.**
‎[14] **They did not cry out to Me, **nor did they** **pray to Me** in their heart. When they would wail on their beds for grain and wine, they would collect **to complain, but not about the source of the evil; **they denigrate Me.** Alternatively, they speak rebelliously against Me.
‎[15] **I chastised them,** **and** I have thereby **strengthened their arms,** or I have fastened their arms in order to bolster them,** and** yet** they think evil of Me. **
‎[16] When they repent, **they repent, but not on high. **Their repentance is not toward Heaven, but toward idols.** They have become like a bow of deceit, **an unstable bow,** **which does not shoot when it is drawn back, and worse yet, turns around against the shooter himself. Consequently,** their princes will fall by the sword from the rage of their tongues, **because they inform on one another.** This is their derision, **they are derided for this,** in the land of Egypt. **When their diplomats arrive in Egypt, they are mocked for their internal squabbles.
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