2For as they called them thus they went from before me and they made sacrifice to Baal and they placed incense for carved images

3And I led Aphreim and I took them on my arms and they have not known that I have healed them

4With the cords of the children of men I pulled them and with the chains of love, and I have been to them as he who takes a yoke from their neck and I stooped to them and they ate

5They shall not return to the land of Egypt, and an Assyrian is their King, because they chose not to return

6The sword shall cause distress in their cities and it will vanish from their hands, and they shall eat of their counsels

7And my nation depends on dwelling with me and to God they will call and it will think as one and it shall not be exalted

8How shall I support you Aphreim, or how shall I help you Israel, or how shall I make you as Adma or as Tseboim? My heart has been turned and my compassions within

9I shall not execute the heat of my wrath and I shall not return to destroy Aphreim, because I am God and I have not been a son of man among you. I am The Holy One and I shall not attack the city

10They shall go after LORD JEHOVAH as a lion that roars, because he shall roar and the children of the people shall tremble

11And they shall be stirred up like a bird of prey from Egypt and like a dove from the land of Assyria, and I shall lead them to their dwelling, says LORD JEHOVAH

12Aphreim and the house of Israel and Yehuda surrounded me with lies in treachery, until he would bring down the people of God, the holy and faithful people