I have seen something horrible in the house of Israel:
Ephraim’s promiscuity is there; Israel is defiled.

Ephraim’s watchman is with my God.
The prophet encounters a fowler’s snare
on all his ways.
Hostility is in the house of his God!

Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird:
no birth, no gestation, no conception.

Ephraim’s guilt is preserved;
his sin is stored up.