Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son.

And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them. And she shall seek them, but shall not find them. Then she shall say, I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better with me then than now.

And now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.

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

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me. For now, O Ephraim, thou have played the harlot; Israel is defiled.

They have dealt treacherously against LORD, for they have borne strange sons. Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.

And they do not consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own doings have surrounded them; they are before my face.

Israel is swallowed up. They are now among the nations as a vessel in which no man delights.

Yea, though they hire among the nations, I will now gather them, and they shall begin to be diminished because of the burden of the king of rulers.

As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it, but LORD does not accept them. He will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins. They shall return to Egypt.

Their heart is divided. Now they shall be found guilty. He will smite their altars. He will destroy their pillars.

Surely now they shall say, We have no king, for we fear not LORD. And the king, what can he do for us?

And now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, Let the men who sacrifice kiss the ca

Where now is thy king, that he may save thee in all thy cities, and thy judges, of whom thou said, Give me a king and rulers?