13. “I have seen Ephrayim, like Tsor, planted in a pleasant place. But Ephrayim shall bring out his children to the murderer.”
14. Give them, O יהוה – give what? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
15. “All their evil is in Gilgal, for there I have hated them. Because of the evil of their deeds I drive them from My house, no more do I love them. All their rulers are rebels.
16. “Ephrayim has been smitten, their root has dried up, they yield no fruit. Even if they bear children, I shall put to death the precious ones of their womb.”
17. My Elohim rejects them, because they have not obeyed Him, so that they become wanderers among the gentiles!