8. The watcher of Ephraim was with my God. The prophet has become a snare of ruin over all his ways; insanity is in the house of his God.
9. They have sinned profoundly, just as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity, and he will repay their sin.
10. I discovered Israel like grapes in the desert. Like the first fruits of the fig tree, I saw their fathers on the end of its branches. But they went in to Baal-peor, and they have been estranged by intermingling, and they have became abominable, just like the things that they chose to love.
11. Ephraim has chased away their glory like a bird: from birth, and from the womb, and from conception.
12. And even if they should nurture their sons, I will make them without children among men. Yes, and woe to them, when I have withdrawn from them.
13. Ephraim, as I see it, was a Tyre, founded by beauty. And Ephraim will lead his sons to execution.
14. Give them, O Lord. What will you give them? Give them a womb without children, and dry breasts.
15. All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for I held them there, in their hatred. Because of the malice of their inventions, I will expel them from my house. I will no longer say that I love them; all their leaders have retreated.
16. Ephraim has been struck; their root has been dried out: by no means will they yield fruit. And even if they should conceive, I will execute the most beloved of their womb.
17. My God will cast them aside because they have not listened to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.