10 “Like grapes in the wilderness I found Israel. Like early fruit on a fig tree in its first season I saw your fathers. They came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame. So they became as detestable as the thing they loved.
11 Ephraim’s glory flies away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
12 For if they should raise their children, I would make them childless to the last man. Yes, woe to them when I depart from them!
13 Ephraim, as I have seen, is like Tyre, planted in a meadow, but Ephraim will bring his children out to the slayer.”
14 Give them, Adonai, what will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dried up breasts.
15 “All their wickedness is at Gilgal, for there I despised them. Because of their wicked practices, I will drive them out of My House. I will love them no more. All their princes are rebellious.
16 Ephraim is blighted; their root is withered; they bear no fruit. Even if they bring forth children, I will slay the cherished ones in their wombs.”