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

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

For they have applied their heart like an oven to their lying in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth like a flaming fire.

And Ephraim is become like a silly dove without understanding: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

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

I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness; as first-ripe fruit on the fig-tree, I saw your fathers at the beginning: they went to Baal-Peor, and separated themselves unto that shame, and became abominations like their lover.

They shall walk after Jehovah; he shall roar like a lion; when he shall roar, then the children shall hasten from the west:

I will meet them as a bear bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the covering of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lioness: the beast of the field shall tear them.

Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? (I answer him, and I will observe him.) I am like a green fir-tree. From me is thy fruit found.