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.
11. As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird—No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!
12. Though they bring up their children,Yet I will bereave them to the last man.Yes, woe to them when I depart from them!
13. Just as I saw Ephraim like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place,So Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.”
14. Give them, O Lord—What will You give?Give them a miscarrying wombAnd dry breasts!
15. “All their wickedness is in Gilgal,For there I hated them.Because of the evil of their deedsI will drive them from My house;I will love them no more.All their princes are rebellious.
16. Ephraim is stricken,Their root is dried up;They shall bear no fruit.Yes, were they to bear children,I would kill the darlings of their womb.”
17. My God will cast them away,Because they did not obey Him;And they shall be wanderers among the nations.