8. Is Ephraim a watchman with my God nay the prophet is a fowler's snare on all his ways, enmity in the house of his God
9. They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
10. I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness; as first-ripe fruit on the fig-tree, I saw your fathers at the beginning: they went to Baal-Peor, and separated themselves unto that shame, and became abominations like their lover.
11. As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away as a bird, --no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
12. For even should they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that not a man remain: for woe also to them when I shall have departed from them!
13. Ephraim, as I saw him, was a Tyre planted in a beautiful place; but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the slayer.
14. Give them, Jehovah--what wilt thou give? --give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.