8There is great hate against the watchman of Ephraim, the people of my God; as for the prophet, there is a net in all his ways, and hate in the house of his God.
9They have gone deep in evil as in the days of Gibeah; he will keep in mind their wrongdoing, he will give them punishment for their sins.
10I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love.
11As for Ephraim, their glory will go in flight like a bird: there will be no birth and no one with child and no giving of life.
12Even though their children have come to growth I will take them away, so that not a man will be there; for their evil-doing will be complete and they will be put to shame because of it.
13As I have seen a beast whose young have been taken from her, so Ephraim will give birth to children only for them to be put to death.
14O Lord, what will you give them? Give them bodies which may not give birth and breasts without milk.
