What shall I do unto thee, Ephraim? What shall I do unto thee, Judah? For your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that early passeth away.

What will ye do in the day of assembly, and in the day of the feast of Jehovah?

Give them, Jehovah what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

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

Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? (I answer him, and I will observe him.) I am like a green fir-tree. From me is thy fruit found.