3In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.
4They are all untrue; they are like a burning oven; the bread-maker does not make up the fire from the time when the paste is mixed till it is leavened.
5On the day of our king, the rulers made him ill with the heat of wine; his hand was stretched out with the men of pride.
6For they have made their hearts ready like an oven, while they are waiting secretly; their wrath is sleeping all night; in the morning it is burning like a flaming fire.
7They are all heated like an oven, and they put an end to their judges; all their kings have been made low; not one among them makes prayer to me.
8Ephraim is mixed with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
9Men from other lands have made waste his strength, and he is not conscious of it; grey hairs have come on him here and there, and he has no knowledge of it.
