Hosea 7:1-7 When I would have brought healing to Israel, then was disclosed the iniquity of Ephraim, and the wicked doings of Samaria, for they have wrought falsehood,––when, a thief, would enter, a band roamed about, outside,

Rotherham⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ When I would have brought healing to Israel, then was disclosed the iniquity of Ephraim, and the wicked doings of Samaria, for they have wrought falsehood,––when, a thief, would enter, a band roamed about, outside, ² And they say not to their own hearts, that, all their wickedness, I remember, now, have their doings, beset them about, right before my face, have they been done. ³ By their wickedness, they gladden a king, and, by their flatteries,––rulers. ⁴ They all, are adulterers, like an oven too hot for the baker,––who leaveth off stoking, after kneading the dough, till the whole be leavened. ⁵ In the day of our king, the rulers, have made themselves ill, with the heat of wine,––he hath extended his hand with scoffers. ⁶ For they have made ready, like an oven, their heart, by their lying in wait,––all the night, their baker sleepeth, in the morning, he, kindleth up as it were a blazing fire. ⁷ They all, become hot as an oven, and devour their judges,––all their kings, have fallen, there hath been none among them crying unto me.