¹¹ and the king of Asshur removeth Israel to Asshur, and placed them in Halah, and in Habor `by' the river Gozan, and `in' cities of the Medes,

²⁶ and stir up doth the God of Israel the spirit of Pul king of Asshur, and the spirit of Tilgath-Pilneser king of Asshur, and he removeth them -- even the Reubenite, and the Gadite, and the half of the tribe of Manasseh -- and bringeth them in to Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and the river of Gozan unto this day.

¹² Did the gods of the nations deliver them whom my fathers destroyed -- Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who `are' in Telassar?

⁶ in the ninth year of Hoshea hath the king of Asshur captured Samaria, and removeth Israel to Asshur, and causeth them to dwell in Halah, and in Habor, `by' the river Gozan, and `in' the cities of the Medes.

⁴³ and ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan -- the figures that ye made to bow before them, and I will remove your dwelling beyond Babylon.

²⁵ Sacrifices and offering did ye bring nigh to Me, In a wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

²⁶ And ye bare Succoth your king, and Chiun your images, The star of your god, that ye made for yourselves.

²⁷ And I removed you beyond Damascus, Said Jehovah, God of Hosts `is' His name.

⁶ Seek ye Jehovah, and live, Lest He prosper as fire `against' the house of Joseph, And it hath consumed, And there is no quencher for Beth-El.

¹ Hear this word that I am bearing to you, A lamentation, O house of Israel:

² `Fallen, not again to rise, hath the virgin of Israel, Left on her land -- she hath no raiser up.'

³ For thus said the Lord Jehovah: The city that is going out a thousand, Doth leave an hundred, And that which is going out an hundred, Doth leave ten to the house of Israel.

³ They do not abide in the land of Jehovah, And turned back hath Ephraim `to' Egypt, And in Asshur an unclean thing they eat.

⁸ Israel hath been swallowed up, Now they have been among nations, As a vessel in which is no delight.

⁹ For they -- they have gone up `to' Asshur, A wild ass alone by himself `is' Ephraim, They have hired lovers!

¹¹ Do I not -- as I have done to Samaria, And to her worthless things, So do to Jerusalem and to her grievous things?

⁵ Wo `to' Asshur, a rod of Mine anger, And a staff in their hand `is' Mine indignation.

⁹ And the people have known -- all of it, Ephraim, and the inhabitant of Samaria, In pride and in greatness of heart, saying,

¹⁰ `Bricks have fallen, and hewn work we build, Sycamores have been cut down, and cedars we renew.'

¹¹ And Jehovah setteth the adversaries of Rezin on high above him, And his enemies he joineth together,

¹² Aram from before, and Philistia from behind, And they devour Israel with the whole mouth. With all this not turned back hath His anger, And still His hand is stretched out.

¹³ And the people hath not turned back unto Him who is smiting it, And Jehovah of Hosts they have not sought.

¹⁴ And Jehovah cutteth off from Israel head and tail, Branch and reed -- the same day,

¹⁵ Elder, and accepted of face, he `is' the head, Prophet, teacher of falsehood, he `is' the tail.

¹⁶ And the eulogists of this people are causing to err, And its eulogised ones are consumed.

¹⁷ Therefore, over its young men the Lord rejoiceth not, And its orphans, and its widows He pitieth not, For every one `is' profane, and an evil doer, And every mouth is speaking folly. With all this not turned back hath His anger, And still His hand is stretched out.

¹⁸ For burned as a fire hath wickedness, Brier and thorn it devoureth, And it kindleth in thickets of the forest, And they lift themselves up, an exaltation of smoke!

¹⁹ In the wrath of Jehovah of Hosts Hath the land been consumed, And the people is as fuel of fire; A man on his brother hath no pity,

²⁰ And cutteth down on the right, and hath been hungry, And he devoureth on the left, And they have not been satisfied, Each the flesh of his own arm they devour.

²¹ Manasseh -- Ephraim, and Ephraim -- Manasseh, Together they `are' against Judah, With all this not turned back hath His anger. And still His hand is stretched out!

⁴ for before the youth doth know to cry, My father, and My mother, one taketh away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria, before the king of Asshur.'

⁸ For the head of Aram `is' Damascus, And the head of Damascus `is' Rezin, And within sixty and five years Is Ephraim broken from `being' a people.

¹¹ Lo, thou hast heard that which the kings of Asshur have done to all the lands -- to devote them; and thou art delivered!