7. For they shall sow wind, and reap a whirlwind, there is no standing stalk in it, the bud shall yield no meal; end if it should yield, strangers shall eat it.
8. Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the nations like an unclean vessel.
9. For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath given gifts to his lovers.
10. But even though they shall have hired the nations, now will I gather them together: and they shall rest a while from the burden of the king, and the princes.
11. Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin: altars are become to him unto sin.