1 whenever I would heal Israel, the sins of Ephraim are exposed and the crimes of Samaria revealed. They practice deceit, thieves break into houses, bandits rob in the streets;2 but they do not realize that I remember all their evil deeds. Their sins engulf them; they are always before me.3 "They delight the king with their wickedness, the princes with their lies.4 They are all adulterers, burning like an oven whose fire the baker need not stir from the kneading of the dough till it rises.5 On the day of the festival of our king the princes become inflamed with wine, and he joins hands with the mockers.6 Their hearts are like an oven; they approach him with intrigue. Their passion smolders all night; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.7 All of them are hot as an oven; they devour their rulers. All their kings fall, and none of them calls on me.8 "Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is a flat loaf not turned over.9 Foreigners sap his strength, but he does not realize it. His hair is sprinkled with gray, but he does not notice.10 Israel's arrogance testifies against him, but despite all this he does not return to the LORD his God or search for him.11 "Ephraim is like a dove, easily deceived and senseless — now calling to Egypt, now turning to Assyria.12 When they go, I will throw my net over them; I will pull them down like the birds in the sky. When I hear them flocking together, I will catch them.13 Woe to them, because they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, because they have rebelled against me! I long to redeem them but they speak about me falsely.14 They do not cry out to me from their hearts but wail on their beds. They slash themselves, "appealing to their gods for grain and new wine, but they turn away from me.15 I trained them and strengthened their arms, but they plot evil against me.16 They do not turn to the Most High; they are like a faulty bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because of their insolent words. For this they will be ridiculed in the land of Egypt.
1 [Cum sanare vellem Isral,revelata est iniquitas Ephraim,et malitia Samari,quia operati sunt mendacium ;et fur ingressus est spolians,latrunculus foris.2 Et ne forte dicant in cordibus suis,omnem malitiam eorum me recordatum,nunc circumdederunt eos adinventiones su :coram facie mea fact sunt.3 In malitia sua ltificaverunt regem,et in mendaciis suis principes.4 Omnes adulterantes,quasi clibanus succensus a coquente ;quievit paululum civitas a commistione fermenti,donec fermentaretur totum.5 Dies regis nostri : cperunt principes furere a vino ;extendit manum suam cum illusoribus.6 Quia applicuerunt quasi clibanum cor suum,cum insidiaretur eis ;tota nocte dormivit coquens eos :mane ipse succensus quasi ignis flamm.7 Omnes calefacti sunt quasi clibanus,et devoraverunt judices suos :omnes reges eorum ceciderunt ;non est qui clamat in eis ad me.8 Ephraim in populis ipse commiscebatur ;Ephraim factus est subcinericius panis, qui non reversatur.9 Comederunt alieni robur ejus, et ipse nescivit ;sed et cani effusi sunt in eo, et ipse ignoravit.10 Et humiliabitur superbia Isral in facie ejus ;nec reversi sunt ad Dominum Deum suum,et non qusierunt eum in omnibus his.11 Et factus est Ephraim quasi columba seducta non habens cor.gyptum invocabant ; ad Assyrios abierunt.12 Et cum profecti fuerint,expandam super eos rete meum :quasi volucrem cli detraham eos ;cdam eos secundum auditionem ctus eorum.13 V eis, quoniam recesserunt a me !vastabuntur, quia prvaricati sunt in me,et ego redemi eos,et ipsi locuti sunt contra me mendacia.14 Et non clamaverunt ad me in corde suo,sed ululabant in cubilibus suis :super triticum et vinum ruminabant ;recesserunt a me.15 Et ego erudivi eos, et confortavi brachia eorum,et in me cogitaverunt malitiam.16 Reversi sunt ut essent absque jugo ;facti sunt quasi arcus dolosus :cadent in gladio principes eorum, a furore lingu su.Ista subsannatio eorum in terra gypti.]