8. And Ephraim said: But yet I am become rich, I have found me an idol: all my labours shall not find me the iniquity that I have committed.
9. And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt, will yet cause thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the feast.
10. And I have spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and I have used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets.
11. If Galaad be an idol, then in vain were they in Galgal offering sacrifices with bullocks: for their altars also are as heaps in the furrows of the field.
12. Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and was a keeper for a wife.
13. But the Lord by a prophet brought Israel out of Egypt: and he was preserved by a prophet.
14. Ephraim hath provoked me to wrath with his bitterness, and his blood shall come upon him, and his Lord will render his reproach unto him.