9:5. What will you do in the solemn day, in the day of the feast of the Lord?
9:6. For behold they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them together, Memphis shall bury them: nettles shall inherit their beloved silver, the bur shall be in their tabernacles.
9:7. The days of visitation are come, the days of repaying are come: know ye, O Israel, that the prophet was foolish, the spiritual man was mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the multitude of thy madness.
9:8. The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: the prophet is become a snare of ruin upon all his ways, madness is in the house of his God.
9:9. They have sinned deeply, as in the days of Gabaa: he will remember their iniquity, and will visit their sin.
9:10. I found Israel like grapes in the desert, I saw their fathers like the firstfruits of the fig tree in the top thereof: but they went in to Beelphegor, and alienated themselves to that confusion, and became abominable, as those things were, which they loved.
9:11. As for Ephraim, their glory hath flown away like bird from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
9:12. And though they should bring up their children, I will make them without children among men: yea, and woe to them, when I shall depart from them.
9:13. Ephraim, as I saw, was a Tyre, founded in beauty: and Ephraim shall bring out his children to the murderer.
9:14. Give them, O Lord. What wilt thou give them? Give them a womb without children, and dry breasts.