And she shall pursue after her lovers, and shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, and shall not find them: and she shall say, I will go and return to my first husband, for then was it better with me than now.

And now will I discover her impiety in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.

For Israel is refractory as an untractable heifer; now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a wide pasture.

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, Ephraim, thou hast committed whoredom; Israel is defiled.

They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah; for they havebegotten strange children: now shall the new moon devour them, with their allotted possessions.

And they say not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now do their own doings encompass them; they are before my face.

Israel is swallowed up: now are they become among the nations as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.

Although they hire among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall begin to be straitened under the burden of the king of princes.

They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; Jehovah hath no delight in them. Now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

Their heart is divided; now shall they be found guilty: he will break down their altars, he will destroy their statues.

For now they will say, We have no king, for we feared not Jehovah; and a king, what can he do for us?

And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.