5. What do you do for the appointed meeting, and in the day of the festival of יהוה?
6. For look, they shall go because of destruction – Mitsrayim gathers them up, Moph buries them, nettles possess their valuables of silver, thorns are in their tents.
7. The days of punishment have come, the days of retribution have come. Yisra’ĕl knows! The prophet is a fool, the ‘man of the Spirit’ is mad, because of the greatness of your crookedness, and great is the enmity.
8. Elohim’s watchman over you, Ephrayim, is the prophet, but a trapper’s snare is in all his ways. Enmity is in the House of his Elohim.
9. They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gib‛ah. He remembers their crookedness, He punishes their sins.
10. “I found Yisra’ĕl like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first-fruits on the fig tree in its beginning. They themselves have gone to Ba‛al Pe‛or, and separated themselves to shame, and became as abominable as that which they loved.
11. “Ephrayim is like a bird, their esteem has flown away – no birth, and none with child, and no conception!
12. “Though they bring up their children, I shall make them childless, without man. For it is woe to them when I turn away from them!