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For they – their hearts like an oven –
draw him into their oven.
Their anger smoulders all night;
in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
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.

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Footnotes

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