Therefore, lo, I am enticing her, And have caused her to go to the wilderness, And I have spoken unto her heart,

Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take the heart,

With their flock and with their herd, They go to seek Jehovah, and do not find, He hath withdrawn from them.

And they do not say to their heart, That all their evil I have remembered, Now compassed them have their doings, Over-against My face they have been.

For they have drawn near, As an oven is their heart, In their lying in wait all the night sleep doth their baker, Morning! he is burning as a flaming fire.

And Ephraim is as a simple dove without heart, Egypt they called on -- to Asshur they have gone.

When they go I spread over them My net, As the fowl of the heavens I bring them down, I chastise them as their company hath heard.

And have not cried unto Me with their heart, but howl on their beds, For corn and new wine they assemble themselves, They turn aside against Me.

Their heart hath been divided, now they are guilty, He doth break down their altars, He doth destroy their standing-pillars.

How do I give thee up, O Ephraim? Do I deliver thee up, O Israel? How do I make thee as Admah? Do I set thee as Zeboim? Turned in Me is My heart, kindled together have been My repentings.

According to their feedings they are satiated, They have been satiated, And their heart is lifted up, Therefore they have forgotten Me,

I do meet them as a bereaved bear, And I rend the enclosure of their heart.