9. They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
10. I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness; as first-ripe fruit on the fig-tree, I saw your fathers at the beginning: they went to Baal-Peor, and separated themselves unto that shame, and became abominations like their lover.
11. As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away as a bird, --no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
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.