And as raiders wait for a man,
So a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem;
Surely they have committed crime.

When it is My desire, I will chastise them;
And the peoples will be gathered against them
When they are bound for their double guilt.

I led them with cords of a man, with bonds of love,
And I became to them as one who lifts the yoke from their jaws;
And I bent down and fed them.

So My people are bent on turning from Me.
Though they call them to the One on high,
None at all exalts Him.

The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up;
His sin is stored up.