WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.740 Chapter 7 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was 00:04.740 --> 00:07.300 discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria. 00:08.000 --> 00:11.680 For they commit falsehood, and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers 00:11.680 --> 00:12.480 spoileth without. 00:12.840 --> 00:16.460 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. 00:17.020 --> 00:19.400 Now their own doings have beset them about. 00:20.200 --> 00:21.380 They are before my face. 00:21.940 --> 00:25.500 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their 00:25.500 --> 00:25.940 lies. 00:26.630 --> 00:31.080 They are all adulterers as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising 00:31.080 --> 00:33.460 after he hath kneaded the dough until it be leavened. 00:34.260 --> 00:38.200 In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine. 00:38.840 --> 00:40.860 He stretched out his hand with scorners. 00:41.720 --> 00:45.120 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whilst they lie in wait. 00:46.060 --> 00:47.680 Their baker sleepeth all the night. 00:48.340 --> 00:50.520 In the morning it burneth as a flaming fire. 00:51.300 --> 00:54.200 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges. 00:54.520 --> 00:55.740 All their kings are fallen. 00:56.000 --> 00:58.700 There is none among them that calleth unto me. 00:59.620 --> 01:02.100 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people. 01:03.120 --> 01:05.780 Ephraim is a cake not turned. 01:06.620 --> 01:09.560 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not. 01:09.920 --> 01:14.280 Yea, grey hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. 01:14.840 --> 01:17.580 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face. 01:18.160 --> 01:23.040 And they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him for all this. 01:24.020 --> 01:27.180 Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart. 01:28.180 --> 01:28.960 They call to Egypt. 01:29.220 --> 01:30.000 They go to Assyria. 01:30.780 --> 01:33.340 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them. 01:33.920 --> 01:36.600 I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven. 01:36.900 --> 01:40.320 I will chastise them as their congregation hath heard. 01:40.720 --> 01:43.500 Woe unto them, for they have fled from me. 01:44.380 --> 01:47.980 Destruction unto them, because they have transgressed against me. 01:48.780 --> 01:52.320 Though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me. 01:53.000 --> 01:55.200 And they have not cried unto me with their heart. 01:55.480 --> 01:59.240 When they howled upon their beds, they assembled themselves for corn and 01:59.240 --> 02:00.900 wine, and they rebel against me. 02:01.380 --> 02:06.020 Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against 02:06.020 --> 02:06.260 me. 02:06.780 --> 02:08.800 They return, but not to the Most High. 02:09.300 --> 02:10.500 They are like a deceitful bow. 02:11.340 --> 02:14.660 Their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. 02:15.300 --> 02:17.320 This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.