Because their mother was unfaithful; she who conceived them has acted shamefully, for she said: "I will go after my lovers, the ones who give [me] my bread, my water, my wool, and my flax, my oil, and my drink."

{I will punish her} [for] the days of the Baals, to whom she burns incense, and she decked herself [with] her ornamental ring and jewelry, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me --a declaration of Yahweh.

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed [in] judgment, because he was determined to go after filth.

He will revive us after two days; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live in his presence.

They will go after Yahweh; he roars like a lion. When he roars, his children will come trembling from [the] sea.

Ephraim, {what have I to do} with idols? I myself have answered and looked after you. I am like a luxuriant cypress; your fruit comes from me.