6. For, lo, they have gone because of destruction, Egypt gathereth them, Moph burieth them, The desirable things of their silver, Nettles possess them--a thorn [is] in their tents.
7. Come in have the days of inspection, Come in have the days of recompence, Israel doth know! a fool [is] the prophet, Mad [is] the man of the Spirit, Because of the abundance of thine iniquity, And great [is] the hatred.
8. Ephraim is looking [away] from My God, The prophet! a snare of a fowler [is] over all his ways, Hatred [is] in the house of his God.
9. They have gone deep--have done corruptly, As [in] the days of Gibeah, He doth remember their iniquity, He doth inspect their sins.
10. As grapes in a wilderness I found Israel, As the first-fruit in a fig-tree, at its beginning, I have seen your fathers, They--they have gone in [to] Baal-Peor, And are separated to a shameful thing, And are become abominable like their love.
11. Ephraim [is] as a fowl, Fly away doth their honour, without birth, And without womb, and without conception.
12. For though they nourish their sons, I have made them childless--without man, Surely also, woe to them, when I turn aside from them.
13. Ephraim! when I have looked to the rock, Is planted in comeliness, And Ephraim [is] to bring out unto a slayer his sons.
14. Give to them, Jehovah--what dost Thou give? Give to them miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.
15. All their evil [is] in Gilgal, Surely there I have hated them, Because of the evil of their doings, Out of My house I do drive them, I add not to love them, all their heads [are] apostates.
16. Ephraim hath been smitten, Their root hath dried up, fruit they yield not, Yea, though they bring forth, I have put to death the desired of their womb.
17. Reject them doth my God, Because they have not hearkened to Him, And they are wanderers among nations!