So he went out and married Diblaim's daughter Gomer. She conceived with him and gave birth to a son.

When Ephraim examined his illness and Judah his injury, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and inquired of the great king; but he could not cure you nor heal your injury.

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

"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.