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.

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.