Their drink has become bitter; they are completely false; her rulers take pleasure in shame.

I have knowledge of Ephraim, and Israel is not secret from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have been false to me, Israel has become unclean.

Ephraim will become a waste in the day of punishment; I have given knowledge among the tribes of Israel of what is certain.

Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.

Though he gives fruit among his brothers, an east wind will come, the wind of the Lord coming up from the waste land, and his spring will become dry, his fountain will be without water: it will make waste the store of all the vessels of his desire.