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 kill her with thirst.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because thou have rejected knowledge, I also will reject thee, that thou shall be no priest to me. Since thou have forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy sons.

And it shall be, like people, like priest. And I will punish them for their ways, and will requite them their doings.

For Israel has behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Now LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

The rulers of Judah are like those who remove the landmark. I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

But like Adam they have transgressed the covenant. There they have dealt treacherously against me.

For they have made their heart ready like an oven, while they lay in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.

And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

They return, but not to [him] on high. They are like a deceitful bow. Their rulers shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.

For they have gone up to Assyria [like] a wild donkey alone by himself. Ephraim has hired lovers.

Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy like the peoples, for thou have played the harlot, [departing] from thy God. Thou have loved hire upon every grain-floor.

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season. But they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that w

As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird. There shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.

They shall walk after LORD, who will roar like a lion. For he will roar, and the sons shall come trembling from the west.

I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart. And there I will devour them like a lioness. The wild beast shall tear them.

Ephraim [shall say], What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered, and will regard him. I am like a green fir tree. From me thy fruit is found.