Hosea 9:10–16

¹⁰As grapes in a wilderness I found Israel, As the first-fruit in a fig-tree, at its beginning, I have seen your fathers, They—they have gone in to Baal-Peor, And are separated to a shameful thing, And are become abominable like their love.

¹¹Ephraim is as a fowl, Fly away doth their honour, without birth, And without womb, and without conception. ¹²For though they nourish their sons, I have made them childless—without man, Surely also, woe to them, when I turn aside from them. ¹³Ephraim! when I have looked to the rock, Is planted in comeliness, And Ephraim is to bring out unto a slayer his sons. ¹⁴Give to them, Jehovah—what dost Thou give? Give to them miscarrying womb, and dry breasts. ¹⁵All their evil is in Gilgal, Surely there I have hated them, Because of the evil of their doings, Out of My house I do drive them, I add not to love them, all their heads are apostates. ¹⁶Ephraim hath been smitten, Their root hath dried up, fruit they yield not, Yea, though they bring forth, I have put to death the desired of their womb.