Lest I strip her naked, and make her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and make her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her lover, and an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: because you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them for their deeds.

For Israel slides back like a stubborn heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in an open pasture.

The princes of Judah were like them that remove the landmark: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

Therefore will I be unto Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.

But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleeps all the night; in the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

Ephraim also is like a silly dove without sense: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

They return, but not to the most High: they are like a treacherous bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the insolence of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them like the bread of mourners; all that eat of it shall be defiled: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and they became abominations like the thing they loved.

As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.

They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springs up like hemlock in the furrows of the field.

They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall come trembling from the west.

Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the fields.

I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the fat of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green cypress tree. In me is your fruit found.