New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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1 when I would heal Israel,
then the guilt of Ephraim stands revealed,
and all the wickedness of Samaria;
they have not kept faith.
They are thieves, they break into houses; note
they are robbers, they strip people in the street,
2 little thinking that I have their wickedness ever in mind.
Now their misdeeds beset them
and stare me in the face.
3 They win over the king with their wickedness
and princes with their treachery,
4 lecherous all of them, hot as an oven over the fire
which the baker does not stir
after kneading the dough until it is proved.
5 On their note king's festal day the officers
begin to be inflamed with wine,
and he joins in the orgies of arrogant men;
6 for their hearts are heated by it note like an oven.
While they are relaxed all night long
their passion slumbers,
but in the morning it flares up
like a blazing fire;
7 they all grow feverish, hot as an oven,
and devour their rulers.
King after king falls from power,
but not one of them calls upon me.
8 Ephraim and his aliens make a sorry mixture;
Ephraim has become a cake half-baked.
9 Foreigners fed on his strength,
but he was unaware;
even his grey hairs turned white,
but he was unaware.
10 So Israel's arrogance cries out against them;
but they do not return to the Lord their God
nor seek him, in spite of it all.
11 Ephraim is a silly senseless pigeon,
now calling upon Egypt, now turning to Assyria for help.
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God's case against Israel
12 Wherever they turn, I will cast my net over them
and will bring them down like birds on the wing;
I will take them captive as soon as I hear them flocking.
13 Woe betide them, for they have strayed from me!
May disaster befall them for rebelling against me!
I long to deliver them,
but they tell lies about me.
14 There is no sincerity in their cry to me;
for all their howling on their pallets
and gashing of themselves note over corn and new wine,
they are turning away from me.
15 Though I support them, though I give them strength of arm,
they plot evil against me.
Like a bow gone slack,
they relapse into the worship of their high god; note
their talk is all lies, note
and so their princes shall fall by the sword.
New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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