9. For they are gone up to Assyria as a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
10. Although they hire among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall begin to be straitened under the burden of the king of princes.
11. Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.
12. I have prescribed unto him the manifold things of my law: they are counted as a strange thing.