All of them are as hot as an oven,(A)
and they consume their rulers.(B)
All their kings fall;
not one of them calls on me.[a]
Ephraim has allowed himself to get mixed up with the nations.
Ephraim is unturned bread baked on a griddle.
Foreigners consume his strength,(C)
but he does not notice.(D)
Even his hair is streaked with gray,
but he does not notice.

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Footnotes

  1. 7:3–7 These vv. may refer to a king’s assassination; Hb obscure.

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