And being brought on their way by the Congregation, they passed through Phoenicea and Shomron, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.
I have surely heard Efrayim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art YY my Elohim.
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of YY , to the house of the Elohim of Yaakov; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of TZiyon shall go forth the Torah, and the word of YY from Yerushalayim.
I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto YY ; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of YY ?
Until YY removed Yisrael out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Yisrael carried away out of their own land to Ashur unto this day.