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

Now when Gomer had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived and gave birth to a son.

When they became many, their sin increased against me; they changed their glory into shame.

I will not punish your daughters for being defiled, and your brides that became whores: seeing the fathers themselves have meddled with harlots, and offered with unthriftiness: but the people that will not understand must be punished.

Their drinking-bout, having passed, - they became, unchaste, they loved wildly, a contempt, became her great men.

[On] the day of our king, the princes became sick [with] the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.

When Ephraim multiplied altars to expiate sins, they became to him altars to sin [on].

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.

With human cords, used I to draw them, with the bands of love, so became I unto them like those who remove the yoke that was on their jaws, - and, holding out food to him, I let him eat.

He was not to turn back into the land of Egypt, Howbeit, the Assyrian - he, became his king, for they refused to turn.

And Ephraim will say, Surely I became rich, I found to me wealth: all my labors shall not be found to me iniquity which was sin.

But I have been the Lord your God since [you became a nation in] the land of Egypt;
I will make you live in tents again,
As in the days of the appointed and solemn festival.

And Jacob went in flight into the field of Aram, and Israel became a servant for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling and terror.
He exalted himself [above the other tribes] in Israel;
But through [the worship of] Baal he became guilty and died [spiritually, and then came ruin, sealing Israel’s doom as a nation].

Yet I have been the Lord your God
Since [the time you became a nation in] the land of Egypt;
And you were not to know any god except Me,
For there is no savior besides Me.

According to their pasture, they became full; they became full, and their heart was exalted: therefore have they forgotten me.