6. For indeed they are gone because of destruction.Egypt shall gather them up;Memphis shall bury them.Nettles shall possess their valuables of silver;Thorns shall be in their tents.
7. The days of punishment have come;The days of recompense have come.Israel knows!The prophet is a fool,The spiritual man is insane,Because of the greatness of your iniquity and great enmity.
8. The watchman of Ephraim is with my God;But the prophet is a fowler’s snare in all his ways—Enmity in the house of his God.
9. They are deeply corrupted,As in the days of Gibeah.He will remember their iniquity;He will punish their sins.
10. “I found IsraelLike grapes in the wilderness;I saw your fathersAs the firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season.But they went to Baal Peor,And separated themselves to that shame;They became an abomination like the thing they loved.