Hoshea 7

¹when I would have healed Yisroel,

then the avon (iniquity) of Ephrayim was exposed,

and the ra'ot (crimes) of Shomron;

for they practice sheker;

and the ganav intrudes,

and the bandit robs bachutz (in the street) .

²And they consider not in their levavot

that I remember all their ra'ah;

now their own evil doings surround them;

they are before My face.

³They make the Melech glad with their ra'ah,

and the sarim (princes) with their lies.

⁴They are all no'afim (adulterers) ,

as an oven heated by the baker,

who ceaseth stirring from the kneading of the batzek (dough) ,

until its chametz leavening rises.

⁵In the Yom Malkeinu

the sarim (princes) have made him sick with the heat of yayin;

he has stretched out his hand with the letzim (mockers) .

⁶For they have made ready their lev

like an oven, while they lie in wait;

their anger smolders kol halailah;

in the boker it burneth like an eish of flame.

⁷They are all hot as an oven,

and have devoured their shofetim;

all their melachim are fallen;

there is none among them that calleth unto Me.

⁸Ephrayim, he hath mixed himself among the people;

Ephrayim is a flat cake not turned over.

⁹Zarim have devoured his ko'ach,

and he knoweth it not;

yea, gray hairs are sprinkled upon him,

yet he hath no da'as.

¹⁰And the ga'on Yisroel testifieth to his face;

and they do not return to Hashem Eloheihem,

nor seek Him for all this.

¹¹Ephrayim also is like an easily deceived yonah without sense;

they call to Mitzrayim,

they turn to Assyria.

¹²When they shall go, I will spread My reshet (net) upon them;

I will bring them down as the fowls of Shomayim;

I will chastise them, when I hear them congregating.

¹³Woe unto them! For they have strayed from Me.

Sod (destruction) unto them because they have committed pesha against Me!

Though I would redeem them,

yet they have spoken kazav (lies) against Me.

¹⁴And they have not cried unto Me with their levavot,

when they wailed upon their beds;

they congregate themselves for dagan and tirosh,

and they depart from Me.

¹⁵Though I have trained and strengthened their zero'ot (arms) ,

yet do they plot rah against Me.

¹⁶They return, but not to Most High;

they are like a faulty keshet;

their sarim (princes) shall fall by the cherev

for the insolence of their leshon;

this shall be their derision in Eretz Mitzrayim.