7. For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: he hath no standing corn; the blade shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.
8. Israel is swallowed up: now are they among the nations as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
9. For they are gone up to Assyria, like a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
10. Yea, though they hire among the nations, now will I gather them; and they begin to be minished by reason of the burden of the king of princes.
11. Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars to sin, altars have been unto him to sin.
12. Though I write for him my law in ten thousand precepts, they are counted as a strange thing.
13. As for the sacrifices of mine offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins; they shall return to Egypt.
14. For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and builded palaces; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the castles thereof.