When Efrayim saw his sickness, and Yhudah saw his wound, then went Efrayim to the Ashurn, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
And shall also carry captives into Egypt their elohim, with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the north.
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Achav, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
Thou hast played the whore also with the Ashurns, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.