They make sacrifices upon the high mountains, and burn their incense upon the hills, yea among the oaks, groves and bushes, for there are good shadows. Therefore your daughters are become harlots, and your spouses have broken their wedlock.

Therefore must Ephraim be mixed among the Heathen. Ephraim is become like a cake that no man turneth:

Therefore are they scattered among the Heathen; There will I gather them up. They shall soon be weary of the burden of king and princes.

They will not dwell in the LORD's land, but Ephraim turneth again into Egypt, and eateth unclean things among the Assyrians.

And though they bring up any, yet will I make them childless among men. Yea, woe shall come to them, when I depart from them.

My God shall cast them away, for they have not been obedient unto him, therefore shall they go astray among the Heathen.

there shall grow a sedition among thy people. All thy strong cities shall be laid waste, even as Shalman was destroyed with his familiars, through him that was avenged of Arbel in the day of battle: where the mother perished with her children.

Yet can I see no comfort, for when he is now the goodliest among the brethren, the East wind, even the wind of the LORD, shall come down from the wilderness, and dry up his conduits, and drink up his wells: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.