¹⁰ In Israel I have seen a very evil thing; there false ways are seen in Ephraim, Israel is unclean;

³ I have knowledge of Ephraim, and Israel is not secret from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have been false to me, Israel has become unclean.

¹⁴ And in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a shocking thing; they are untrue to their wives, walking in deceit, and they make strong the hands of evil-doers, so that a man may not be turned back from his evil-doing: they have all become like Sodom to me, and its people like Gomorrah.

³⁰ A thing of wonder and fear has come about in the land;

³¹ The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?

¹⁷ Ephraim is joined to false gods; let him be.

¹¹ Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.

⁵ And Oholah was untrue to me when she was mine; she was full of desire for her lovers, even for the Assyrians, her neighbours,

¹³ So this is what the Lord has said: Make search among the nations and see who has had word of such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very shocking thing.

⁶ And the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what Israel, turning away from me, has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every branching tree, acting like a loose woman there.

¹² Be full of wonder, O heavens, at this; be overcome with fear, be completely waste, says the Lord.

¹³ For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.

⁷ And the wrath of the Lord came on Israel because they had done evil against the Lord their God, who took them out of the land of Egypt from under the yoke of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and had become worshippers of other gods,

³⁰ Because of the sins which Jeroboam did and made Israel do, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath.

⁸ But he gave no attention to the opinion of the old men, and went to the young men of his generation who were waiting before him: