When Efrayim spoke, there was trembling; he exalted himself in Yisra᾽el; but when he became guilty through the Ba῾al, he died.

And now they sin more and more, and have made for themselves molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men who sacrifice kiss calves.

Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the dew that passes early away, as the chaff that is driven with the wind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the window.

Yet I am the Lord thy God from the land of Miżrayim, and thou knowst no god but me: for there is no saviour besides me.

I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

When they were fed, they became full; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore they have forgotten me.

Therefore I will be to them as a lion: as a leop­ard by the way I will observe them:

I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and I will rend their closed up heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

O Yisra᾽el thou hast destroyed thyself; for thou art against me, against thy help.

Where is thy king, that he may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou didst say, Give me a king and princes?

I give thee a king in my anger, and take him away in my wrath.

The iniquity of Efrayim is bound up; his sin is laid in store.

The pangs of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for this is no time to tarry, at the moment of childbirth.

I would ransom them from the power of She᾽ol; I would redeem them from death: O death where are thy plagues? O She᾽ol, where is thy destruction? compassion shall be hidden from my eyes.

Though he be fertile among the reed grass, an east wind shall come, the wind of the Lord shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all precious vessels.