Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that, in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.

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

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

Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; because he was content to walk after man's command.

Ephraim was a watchman with my God: as for the prophet, a fowler's snare is in all his ways, and enmity in the house of his God.

Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces with her children.

When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love; and I was to them as they that lift up the yoke on their jaws; and I laid food before them.

And by a prophet Jehovah brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.

When Ephraim spake, there was trembling; he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.

According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted: therefore have they forgotten me.