And he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived and bore him a son.

And Jehovah said unto him, Call his name Jizreel; for yet a little, and I will visit the blood of Jizreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.

And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And he said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah; for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel, so that I should pardon them.

Ephraim is joined to idols: leave him alone.

They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah; but they shall not find him: he hath withdrawn himself from them.

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not; yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth it not.

And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face; and they do not return to Jehovah their God, nor seek him for all this.

Israel hath cast off good: the enemy shall pursue him.

Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.

I have prescribed unto him the manifold things of my law: they are counted as a strange thing.

They shall pour out no offerings of wine to Jehovah, neither shall their sacrifices be pleasing unto him: they shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be defiled: for their bread shall be for themselves; it shall not come into the house of Jehovah.

Ephraim, as I saw him, was a Tyre planted in a beautiful place; but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the slayer.

My God hath rejected them, because they hearkened not unto him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.

Yea, my people are bent upon backsliding from me: though they call them to the Most High, none at all exalteth him.

Jehovah hath also a controversy with Judah, and he will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.

Yea, he wrestled with the Angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us,

Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly; and his Lord shall leave his blood upon him, and recompense unto him his reproach.

I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.

The pangs of a woman in travail shall come upon him: he is a son not wise; for at the time of the breaking forth of children, he was not there.

Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah; say unto him, Forgive all iniquity, and receive us graciously; so will we render the calves of our lips.

I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for mine anger is turned away from him.

Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? (I answer him, and I will observe him.) I am like a green fir-tree. From me is thy fruit found.