New King James Version

Darby Bible Translation

Israel Has Rebelled Against God

“When I would have healed Israel,
Then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered,
And the wickedness of Samaria.
For they have committed fraud;
A thief comes in;
A band of robbers [a]takes spoil outside.

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Ephraim's Iniquity

When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they practise falsehood; and the thief entereth in, [and] the troop of robbers assaileth without.

2

They [b]do not consider in their hearts
That I remember all their wickedness;
Now their own deeds have surrounded them;
They are before My face.

2

And they say not in their hearts [that] I remember all their wickedness: now do their own doings encompass them; they are before my face.

3

They make a king glad with their wickedness,
And princes with their lies.

3

They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

4

“They are all adulterers.
Like an oven heated by a baker —
He ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough,
Until it is leavened.

4

They all practise adultery, as an oven heated by the baker: he ceaseth from stirring [the fire] after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

5

In the day of our king
Princes have made him sick, [c]inflamed with wine;
He stretched out his hand with scoffers.

5

In the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine: he stretched out his hand to scorners.

6

They prepare their heart like an oven,
While they lie in wait;
[d]Their baker sleeps all night;
In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.

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For they have applied their heart like an oven to their lying in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth like a flaming fire.

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They are all hot, like an oven,
And have devoured their judges;
All their kings have fallen.
None among them calls upon Me.

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They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.

8

“Ephraim has mixed himself among the peoples;
Ephraim is a cake unturned.

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Ephraim, he mixeth himself with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

9

Aliens have devoured his strength,
But he does not know it;
Yes, gray hairs are here and there on him,
Yet he does not know it.

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Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth [it] not; yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth [it] not.

10

And the pride of Israel testifies to his face,
But they do not return to the Lord their God,
Nor seek Him for all this.

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And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face; and they do not return to Jehovah their God, nor seek him for all this.

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Futile Reliance on the Nations

“Ephraim also is like a silly dove, without [e]sense —
They call to Egypt,
They go to Assyria.

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And Ephraim is become like a silly dove without understanding: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

12

Wherever they go, I will spread My net on them;
I will bring them down like birds of the air;
I will chastise them
According to what their congregation has heard.

12

When they go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowl of the heavens; I will chastise them, according as their assembly hath heard.

13

“Woe to them, for they have fled from Me!
Destruction to them,
Because they have transgressed against Me!
Though I redeemed them,
Yet they have spoken lies against Me.

13

Woe unto them! for they have wandered from me; destruction unto them! for they have transgressed against me. And I would redeem them; but they speak lies against me.

14

They did not cry out to Me with their heart
When they wailed upon their beds.
“They [f]assemble together for grain and new wine,
[g]They rebel against Me;

14

And they cried not unto me in their heart, when they howled upon their beds; they assemble themselves for corn and new wine; they have turned aside from me.

15

Though I disciplined and strengthened their arms,
Yet they devise evil against Me;

15

I have indeed trained, I have strengthened their arms, but they imagine mischief against me.

16

They return, but not [h]to the Most High;
They are like a treacherous bow.
Their princes shall fall by the sword
For the cursings of their tongue.
This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

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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.

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