6. And thou, through thy God, dost turn, Kindness and judgment keep thou, And wait on thy God continually.
7. Canaan! in his hand [are] balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.
8. And Ephraim saith: `Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself, All my labours--they find not against me iniquity that [is] sin.'
9. And I--Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt, Again do I turn thee back into tents, As in the days of the appointed time.
10. And I have spoken unto the prophets, And I have multiplied vision, And by the hand of the prophets I use similes.
11. Surely Gilead [is] iniquity, Only, vanity they have been, In Gilead bullocks they have sacrificed, Also their altars [are] as heaps, on the furrows of a field.
12. And Jacob doth flee to the country of Aram, And Israel doth serve for a wife, Yea, for a wife he hath kept watch.
13. And by a prophet hath Jehovah brought up Israel out of Egypt, And by a prophet it hath been watched.
14. Ephraim hath provoked most bitterly, And his blood on himself he leaveth, And his reproach turn back to him doth his Lord!