ἐν τῷ ἰάσασθαί με τὸν Ισραηλ καὶ ἀποκαλυφθήσεται ἡ ἀδικία Εφραιμ καὶ ἡ κακία Σαμαρείας ὅτι ἠργάσαντο ψευδῆ καὶ κλέπτης πρὸς αὐτὸν εἰσελεύσεται ἐκδιδύσκων λῃστὴς ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ αὐτοῦ
When I healed Israel, then the injustice of Ephraim shall be uncovered and the evil of Samaria, because they worked false things; and a thief shall come in to him, stripping, a robber on his road.
Word-by-word analysis· 29 words
ὅπως συνᾴδωσιν ὡς συνᾴδοντες τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτῶν πάσας τὰς κακίας αὐτῶν ἐμνήσθην νῦν ἐκύκλωσεν αὐτοὺς τὰ διαβούλια αὐτῶν ἀπέναντι τοῦ προσώπου μου ἐγένοντο
So that they may agree, as those singing together in their heart, all their evils — I remembered; now their counsels surrounded them; they came to be before my face.
Word-by-word analysis· 23 words
ἐν ταῖς κακίαις αὐτῶν εὔφραναν βασιλεῖς καὶ ἐν τοῖς ψεύδεσιν αὐτῶν ἄρχοντας
In their evils they gladdened kings, and in their falsehoods rulers.
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πάντες μοιχεύοντες ὡς κλίβανος καιόμενος εἰς πέψιν κατακαύματος ἀπὸ τῆς φλογός ἀπὸ φυράσεως στέατος ἕως τοῦ ζυμωθῆναι αὐτό
All are committing adultery, like an oven burning for the baking of burning heat, from the flame, from the kneading of dough until it is leavened.
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αἱ ἡμέραι τῶν βασιλέων ὑμῶν ἤρξαντο οἱ ἄρχοντες θυμοῦσθαι ἐξ οἴνου ἐξέτεινεν τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ μετὰ λοιμῶν
The days of your kings began; the rulers became inflamed with wine; he stretched out his hand with pestilent men.
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διότι ἀνεκαύθησαν ὡς κλίβανος αἱ καρδίαι αὐτῶν ἐν τῷ καταράσσειν αὐτούς ὅλην τὴν νύκτα ὕπνου Εφραιμ ἐνεπλήσθη πρωὶ ἐγενήθη ἀνεκαύθη ὡς πυρὸς φέγγος
For their hearts were kindled like an oven when he disturbed them; all night Ephraim was filled with sleep, but in the morning it became kindled like the brightness of fire.
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πάντες ἐθερμάνθησαν ὡς κλίβανος καὶ κατέφαγον τοὺς κριτὰς αὐτῶν πάντες οἱ βασιλεῖς αὐτῶν ἔπεσαν οὐκ ἦν ὁ ἐπικαλούμενος ἐν αὐτοῖς πρός με
All were heated like an oven and devoured their judges; all their kings fell; there was none among them calling upon me.
Word-by-word analysis· 22 words
Εφραιμ ἐν τοῖς λαοῖς αὐτοῦ συνανεμείγνυτο Εφραιμ ἐγένετο ἐγκρυφίας οὐ μεταστρεφόμενος
Ephraim was mixed among his peoples; Ephraim became a hidden cake not being turned.
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κατέφαγον ἀλλότριοι τὴν ἰσχὺν αὐτοῦ αὐτὸς δὲ οὐκ ἐπέγνω καὶ πολιαὶ ἐξήνθησαν αὐτῷ καὶ αὐτὸς οὐκ ἔγνω
Foreigners devoured his strength, but he did not know; and gray hairs sprang up upon him, and he himself did not know.
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καὶ ταπεινωθήσεται ἡ ὕβρις Ισραηλ εἰς πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ καὶ οὐκ ἐπέστρεψαν πρὸς κύριον τὸν θεὸν αὐτῶν καὶ οὐκ ἐξεζήτησαν αὐτὸν ἐν πᾶσι τούτοις
And the pride of Israel shall be humbled before his face, and they did not return to the Lord their God and did not seek him in all these things.
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καὶ ἦν Εφραιμ ὡς περιστερὰ ἄνους οὐκ ἔχουσα καρδίαν Αἴγυπτον ἐπεκαλεῖτο καὶ εἰς Ἀσσυρίους ἐπορεύθησαν
And Ephraim was like a senseless dove, not having a heart; it called upon Egypt and went to the Assyrians.
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καθὼς ἂν πορεύωνται ἐπιβαλῶ ἐπ' αὐτοὺς τὸ δίκτυόν μου καθὼς τὰ πετεινὰ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ κατάξω αὐτούς παιδεύσω αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ ἀκοῇ τῆς θλίψεως αὐτῶν
Whenever they go, I will cast my net upon them; like the birds of the sky I will bring them down; I will discipline them in the hearing of their affliction.
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οὐαὶ αὐτοῖς ὅτι ἀπεπήδησαν ἀπ' ἐμοῦ δείλαιοί εἰσιν ὅτι ἠσέβησαν εἰς ἐμέ ἐγὼ δὲ ἐλυτρωσάμην αὐτούς αὐτοὶ δὲ κατελάλησαν κατ' ἐμοῦ ψεύδη
Woe to them, because they sprang away from me; they are miserable, because they acted impiously toward me. But I redeemed them, and they spoke lies against me.
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καὶ οὐκ ἐβόησαν πρός με αἱ καρδίαι αὐτῶν ἀλλ' ἢ ὠλόλυζον ἐν ταῖς κοίταις αὐτῶν ἐπὶ σίτῳ καὶ οἴνῳ κατετέμνοντο ἐπαιδεύθησαν ἐν ἐμοί
And their hearts did not cry to me, but they howled upon their beds; over grain and wine they gashed themselves; they were disciplined in me.
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κἀγὼ κατίσχυσα τοὺς βραχίονας αὐτῶν καὶ εἰς ἐμὲ ἐλογίσαντο πονηρά
And I strengthened their arms, but against me they reckoned evil things.
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ἀπεστράφησαν εἰς οὐθέν ἐγένοντο ὡς τόξον ἐντεταμένον πεσοῦνται ἐν ῥομφαίᾳ οἱ ἄρχοντες αὐτῶν δι' ἀπαιδευσίαν γλώσσης αὐτῶν οὗτος ὁ φαυλισμὸς αὐτῶν ἐν γῇ Αἰγύπτῳ
They turned aside into nothing; they became like a bent bow; their rulers shall fall by the sword because of the lack of discipline of their tongue; this is their derision in the land of Egypt.