12. For even should they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that not a man remain: for woe also to them when I shall have departed from them!
13. Ephraim, as I saw him, was a Tyre planted in a beautiful place; but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the slayer.
14. Give them, Jehovah--what wilt thou give? --give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
15. All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their doings, I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more: all their princes are rebellious.
16. Ephraim is smitten: their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit; yea, though they should bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved fruit of their womb.
17. My God hath rejected them, because they hearkened not unto him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.