微读圣经

1“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 7:1 plunderstakes spoil outside.

2They 7:2 Lit. do not say todo not consider in their hearts

That I remember all their wickedness;

Now their own deeds have surrounded them;

They are before My face.

3They make a king glad with their wickedness,

And 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.

5In the day of our king

Princes have made him sick, 7:5 Lit. with the heat ofinflamed with wine;

He stretched out his hand with scoffers.

6They prepare their heart like an oven,

While they lie in wait;

7:6 So with MT, Vg.; Syr., Tg. Their anger; LXX EphraimTheir baker sleeps all night;

In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.

7They are all hot, like an oven,

And have devoured their judges;

All their kings have fallen.

None among them calls upon Me.

8“Ephraim has mixed himself among the peoples;

Ephraim is a cake unturned.

9Aliens 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.

10And the pride of Israel testifies to his face,

But they do not return to the Lord their God,

Nor seek Him for all this.

Futile Reliance on the Nations

11“Ephraim also is like a silly dove, without 7:11 Lit. heartsense—

They call to Egypt,

They go to Assyria.

12Wherever 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.

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.

14They did not cry out to Me with their heart

When they wailed upon their beds.

“They 7:14 So with MT, Tg.; Vg. thought upon; LXX slashed themselves for (cf. 1 Kin. 18:28)assemble together for grain and new wine,

7:14 So with MT, Syr., Tg.; LXX omits They rebel against Me; Vg. They departed from MeThey rebel against Me;

15Though I disciplined and strengthened their arms,

Yet they devise evil against Me;

16They return, but not 7:16 Or upwardto 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.