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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 (7:2) They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies (7:3) 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 (7:4) In the day of our king the princes have made [him] sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners (7:5) 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 (7:6) 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 (7:7) Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned (7:8) Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth [it] not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not (7:9) 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 (7:10) Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria (7:11) 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 (7:12) 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 (7:13) 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 (7:14) Though I have bound [and] strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me (7:15) 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
(7:16)
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