1When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.[ † ]Ezekiel 23:4-8Hosea 5:1 2And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.[ † ]Psalms 25:7Jeremiah 14:10Jeremiah 17:1Hosea 8:13Hosea 9:9Amos 8:7 3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.[ † ]Hosea 1:1Micah 7:3Romans 1:32 4They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.[ † ]Jeremiah 9:2Jeremiah 23:10 5In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.[ † ]Isaiah 28:1-7 6For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. 7They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.[ † ]Isaiah 64:7
8Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.[ † ]Psalms 106:35 9Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.[ † ]Isaiah 1:7Isaiah 42:25Hosea 8:7 10And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him for all this.[ † ]Hosea 5:5Isaiah 9:13 11Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.[ † ]Hosea 11:11Isaiah 30:3Hosea 5:13Hosea 8:9 12When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.[ † ]Ezekiel 12:13Leviticus 26:14Deuteronomy 28:152 Kings 17:13 13Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.[ † ]Exodus 18:8Micah 6:4 14And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.[ † ]Job 35:9-10Psalms 78:36Jeremiah 3:10Zechariah 7:5Judges 9:27Amos 2:8 15Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me. 16They 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.[ † ]Psalms 78:57Psalms 73:9Daniel 7:25Malachi 3:13-14Deuteronomy 28:68Ezekiel 23:32Hosea 8:13Hosea 9:3