O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?

Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?

Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.