8. Israel is swallowed up.Now they are amongst the nations like a worthless thing.
9. For they have gone up to Assyria,like a wild donkey wandering alone.Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
10. But although they sold themselves amongst the nations,I will now gather them;and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.
11. Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning,they became for him altars for sinning.
12. I wrote for him the many things of my law;but they were regarded as a strange thing.
13. As for the sacrifices of my offerings,they sacrifice meat and eat it;But the Lord doesn’t accept them.Now he will remember their iniquity,and punish their sins.They will return to Egypt.