For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
Efrayim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Ashurns, and oil is carried into Egypt.
O Efrayim, what shall I do unto thee? O Yhudah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
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.
YY shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Efrayim departed from Yhudah; even the king of Ashur.
His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his shofars are like the shofars of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Efrayim, and they are the thousands of Mnasheh.
The beginning of the word of YY by Hoshea. And YY said to Hoshea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from YY .