10 “I found Yisra’ĕl like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first-fruits on the fig tree in its beginning. They themselves have gone to Ba‛al Pe‛or, and separated themselves to shame, and became as abominable as that which they loved.
11 “Ephrayim is like a bird, their esteem has flown away – no birth, and none with child, and no conception!
12 “Though they bring up their children, I shall make them childless, without man. For it is woe to them when I turn away from them!
13 “I have seen Ephrayim, like Tsor, planted in a pleasant place. But Ephrayim shall bring out his children to the murderer.”
14 Give them, O יהוה – give what? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
15 “All their evil is in Gilgal, for there I have hated them. Because of the evil of their deeds I drive them from My house, no more do I love them. All their rulers are rebels.
16 “Ephrayim has been smitten, their root has dried up, they yield no fruit. Even if they bear children, I shall put to death the precious ones of their womb.”