Bound up `is' the iniquity of Ephraim, Hidden `is' his sin,
Sealed up in a bag `is' my transgression, And Thou sewest up mine iniquity.
God layeth up for his sons his sorrow, He giveth recompense unto him -- and he knoweth.
But though thou dost wash with nitre, And dost multiply to thyself soap, Marked is thine iniquity before Me, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.
but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,