The wrong walk around on every side, When worthlessness is exalted among the sons of men.
If a ruler listens to lying words, All his servants become wrong.
“For the laws of Omri are strictly observed, and all the works of the house of Aḥ
“Ephrayim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because it pleased him to walk after Tsaw.
sons of fools, even sons without a name, they have been whipped out of the land.
“And in his place shall arise a despised one, to whom they shall not give the excellency of the rule. But he shall come in peaceably, and seize the rule by flatteries.