Itself also, to Assyria, shall be borne along, as a present to a hostile king,—shame, shall Ephraim receive, that Israel, may be ashamed, of his own counsel.
When Ephraim, saw, his injury, and Judah his wound, then went Ephraim unto Assyria, and Judah sent unto a hostile king,—yet, he, cannot heal you, nor will the wound, remove from you.
yea, even their gods, with their molten images, with their delightful vessels of silver and gold, with a host of captives, will he bring into Egypt,—and, he, will stand more, years, than the king of the north;
Yet they hearkened not Neither inclined their ear, But walked, In the counsels—In the stubbornness of their own wicked heart; And went backward, and not forward.
For strictly observed are the statutes of Omri, and every doing of the house of Ahab, and ye have walked in their counsels,—to the end I may give thee up to desolation, and her inhabitants to hissing, that, the reproach of peoples, ye may bear.
Then shall ye call to mind Your ways that were wicked, and Your doings that were not good,- And shall become loathsome in your own sight. For your iniquities and For your abominations.
Thou didst also extend thine unchastity unto the sons of Assyria, because thou wast insatiable. Yet though thou didst behave unchastely with them, yet even so couldst thou not be satisfied,