11. As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.
12. Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!
13. I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.
14. Give them—Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
15. “All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels.
16. Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.”
17. My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.