13:001

When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he became guilty through Baal, he died

13:002

And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, according to their own understanding, even idols, all of them the work of the craftsmen; of them they say: 'They that sacrifice men kiss calves.

13:003

Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the dew that early passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the wind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the window

13:004

Yet I am HaShem thy G-d from the land of Egypt; and thou knowest no G-d but Me, and beside Me there is no saviour

13:005

I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought

13:006

When they were fed, they became full, they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten Me

13:007

Therefore am I become unto them as a lion; as a leopard will I watch by the way

13:008

I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the enclosure of their heart; and there will I devour them like a lioness; the wild beast shall tear them

13:009

It is thy destruction, O Israel, that thou art against Me, against thy help

13:010

Ho, now, thy king, that he may save thee in all thy cities! and thy judges, of whom thou saidst: 'Give me a king and princes!

13:011

I give thee a king in Mine anger, and take him away in My wrath

13:012

The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is laid up in store

13:013

The throes of a travailing woman shall come upon him; he is an unwise son; for it is time he should not tarry in the place of the breaking forth of children

13:014

Shall I ransom them from the power of the nether-world? Shall I redeem them from death? Ho, thy plagues, O death! Ho, thy destruction, O netherworld! Repentance be hid from Mine eyes

13:015

For though he be fruitful among the reed-plants, an east wind shall come, the wind of HaShem coming up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up; he shall spoil the treasure of all precious vessels