6 For indeed they are gone because of destruction.Egypt will gather them,and Memphis will bury them.Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver,and thorns will be in their tents.
7 The days of punishment have come;the days of recompense have come.Israel knows!The prophet is a fool;the man of the spirit is insane,because of your great iniquity and great hatred.
8 The watchman of Ephraim is a prophetfor my God;yet a fowler’s snare is on all his ways,and hatred in the house of his God.
9 They have deeply corrupted themselvesas in the days of Gibeah.He will remember their iniquity,He will punish their sins.
10 Like grapes in the wilderness,I found Israel.Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season,I saw your fathers.But they went to Baal Peorand consecrated themselves to a thing of shame,and they became an abomination like the thing they loved.
11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird:no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
12 Though they bring up their children,I will bereave them until none are left.Woe to them indeed,when I depart from them!