8Ephraim 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.
9They have gone deep -- have done corruptly, As [in] the days of Gibeah, He doth remember their iniquity, He doth inspect their sins.
10As 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.
11Ephraim [is] as a fowl, Fly away doth their honour, without birth, And without womb, and without conception.
12For though they nourish their sons, I have made them childless -- without man, Surely also, wo to them, when I turn aside from them.
13Ephraim! when I have looked to the rock, Is planted in comeliness, And Ephraim [is] to bring out unto a slayer his sons.
14Give to them, Jehovah -- what dost Thou give? Give to them miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.
