9. For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath given gifts to his lovers.
10. But even though they shall have hired the nations, now will I gather them together: and they shall rest a while from the burden of the king, and the princes.
11. Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin: altars are become to him unto sin.
12. I shall write to him my manifold laws, which have been accounted as foreign.