"Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.

They won't pour out wine offerings to Yahweh, neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted; for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into the house of Yahweh.

"They won't return into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian will be their king, because they refused to repent.

Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.