And she knew not that I had given to her, The corn, and the new wine, and the oil. Yea, silver I did multiply to her, And the gold they prepared for Baal.

There I will restore her vineyards to her, and the Valley of Achor will become a doorway to hope. There she will respond as she did in her youth, when she came up from Egypt."

As they were magnified, so, they sinned against me, - My glory - for what was contemptible, did they exchange.

In that time of the plague shall Ephraim be laid waste, therefore did I faithfully warn the tribes of Israel.

But even like as Adam did, so have they broken my covenant, and set me at naught.

As troops waiting for a man, the company of priests will break in pieces the way with the shoulder: for they did wickedness.

As I healed to Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the evils of Shomeron: for they did falsehood, and the thief will come in, and the troop invaded without

{But they did not consider} that I remember all their wickedness. Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face.

They set kings in place, but not by me. They established princes, whom I did not recognize. They crafted idols for themselves from their silver and gold; as a result, they will be destroyed.

Indeed, they sow the wind
and reap the whirlwind.
There is no standing grain;
what sprouts fails to yield flour.
Even if they did,
foreigners would swallow it up.

Because Ephraim did multiply altars to sin, They have been to him altars to sin.

They have corrupted themselves deeply, as did Gibeah in its day. Therefore God will remember their lawlessness, and he will pay them back for their sins.

As for Ephraim! like a bird, did their glory, fly away, - no birth, and none with child, no conception.

"My God will reject them, because they did not obey him, and they will become wanderers among the nations."

Israel was a goodly vine, but he hath brought forth unprofitable fruit: yea, the more fruit he had the more altars he made; the more good I did to their land, the more friendship showed they to their Images.

From now on they will say, "We have no king, because we did not fear the LORD and what would a king do for us?'

O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.

You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies: because you did trust in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.

Thus did the house of God to you from the face of the evil of your evil: in the morning the king of Israel being cut off, was cut off.

Yet it was I who led Ephraim, I took them by the arm; but they did not acknowledge that I had healed them.

How may I give you up, O Ephraim? how may I be your saviour, O Israel? how may I make you like Admah? how may I do to you as I did to Zeboim? My heart is turned in me, it is soft with pity.

When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling.
He exalted himself in Israel,
But through Baal he did wrong and died.

I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

When I gave them food they were full, and their hearts were full of pride, and they did not keep me in mind.