8 Israel is swallowed up!m

Now they are among the nations

like discarded pottery.n

9 For they have gone up to Assyriao

like a wild donkey going off on its own.

Ephraim has paid for love.p

10 Even though they hire lovers among the nations,

I will now round them up,

and they will begin to decrease in numberq

under the burden of the king and leaders.r

11 When Ephraim multiplied his altars for sin,s

they became his altars for sinning.