and I say unto her, 'Many days thou dost remain for Me, thou dost not go a-whoring, nor become any one's; and I also am for thee.'

And thou hast stumbled in the day, And stumbled hath also a prophet with thee in the night, And I have cut off thy mother.

Cut off have been My people for lack of knowledge, Because thou knowledge hast rejected, I reject thee from being priest to Me, And thou forgettest the law of thy God, I forget thy sons, I also!

And humbled hath been the excellency of Israel to his face, And Israel and Ephraim stumble by their iniquity, Stumbled also hath Judah with them.

Also, O Judah, appointed is a harvest to thee, In My turning back to the captivity of My people!

Devoured have strangers his power, And he hath not known, Also old age hath sprinkled itself on him, And he hath not known.

Also though they hire among nations, Now I gather them, and they are pained a little, From the burden of a king of princes.

For though they nourish their sons, I have made them childless -- without man, Surely also, woe to them, when I turn aside from them.

Also it to Asshur is carried, a present to a warlike king, Shame doth Ephraim receive, And ashamed is Israel of its own counsel.

Surely Gilead is iniquity, Only, vanity they have been, In Gilead bullocks they have sacrificed, Also their altars are as heaps, on the furrows of a field.