7 All of them are hot like an oven, and they devour their rulers. All of their kings have fallen. None among them calls on Me.
8 Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples. Ephraim has become a pancake that never gets turned over.
9 Strangers devoured his strength— yet he does not know it. Gray hairs have spread on him— and he does not know it.
10 Though the Pride of Israel has answered him to his face, yet they did not return to Adonai their God, nor seek Him about all this.
11 Ephraim is like a senseless silly dove, they call to Egypt; they go to Assyria.
12 As they are going, I will spread out My net over them, I will bring them down like a bird from the sky. I will chasten them as in the report that comes to their assembly.
13 Oy to them! For they strayed from Me. Devastation to them! For they rebelled against Me. Should I redeem them after they spoke lies about Me?