¹¹ Because Ephraim did multiply altars to sin, They have been to him altars to sin.

¹¹ Surely Gilead `is' iniquity, Only, vanity they have been, In Gilead bullocks they have sacrificed, Also their altars `are' as heaps, on the furrows of a field.

²⁸ and ye have served there gods, work of man's hands, wood and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

¹⁰ As my hand hath got to the kingdoms of a worthless thing, and their graven images, `Greater' than Jerusalem and than Samaria,

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

¹³ And I have cast you from off this land, On to a land that ye have not known, Ye and your fathers, And ye have served there other gods by day and by night, Where I do not give to you grace.

¹ `An empty vine `is' Israel, Fruit he maketh like to himself, According to the abundance of his fruit, He hath multiplied for the altars, According to the goodness of his land, They have made goodly standing-pillars.

² Their heart hath been divided, now they are guilty, He doth break down their altars, He doth destroy their standing-pillars.

⁸ And destroyed have been high places of Aven, the sin of Israel. Thorn and bramble go up on their altars, And they have said to hills, Cover us, And to heights, Fall upon us.