So he went and took Gomer, daughter of Diblaim, - and she conceived and bare him a son.

So will I visit upon her the days of the Baals, unto whom she used to burn incense, and decked herself with her nose-ring and her jewelry, and went her way after her lovers, - whereas, me, she forgat, Declareth Yahweh.

Oppressed is Ephraim, broken in judgment, When he pleased he went after the command.

When Ephraim, saw, his injury, and Judah his wound, then went Ephraim unto Assyria, and Judah sent unto a hostile king, - yet, he, cannot heal you, nor will the wound, remove from you.

What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? What shall I do to thee, O Judah? and your kindness as the cloud of the morning, and as the dew being early went away.

And Ephraim will be as an enticed dove, not a heart: they called Egypt, they went to Assur.

"Because they went over to Assyria, they are like a wild donkey alone by itself. Ephraim has hired some lovers.

For behold, they went from destruction: Egypt shall gather them together; Memphis shall bury them: the desire for their silver, the prickly weed shall possess them: the thorn in their tents.

"I found Israel, as one finds grapes in the wilderness; Your ancestors seemed to me like the fruit gleaned from a fig tree's first harvest. When they went to Baal-peor, they devoted themselves to that filth, and they became loathsome, like what they loved.

As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

And Jacob went in flight into the field of Aram, and Israel became a servant for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.