7. My people are determined to turn from me.Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won’t exalt them.

8. “How can I give you up, Ephraim?How can I hand you over, Israel?How can I make you like Admah?How can I make you like Zeboiim?My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.

9. I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One among you;and I will not come in wrath.

10. They will walk after יהוה, who will roar like a lion;for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.

11. They will come trembling like a bird out of Egypt,and like a dove out of the land of Assyria;and I will settle them in their houses,” says יהוה.

12. Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood,and the house of Israel with deceit.Judah still strays from God,and is unfaithful to the Holy One.

Chapter 12 

1. Ephraim feeds on wind,and chases the east wind.He continually multiplies lies and desolation.They make a covenant with Assyria,and oil is carried into Egypt.

2. יהוה also has a controversy with Judah,and will punish Jacob according to his ways;according to his deeds he will repay him.

3. In the womb he took his brother by the heel;and in his manhood he contended with God.

4. Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed;he wept, and made supplication to him.He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,

5.   Even יהוה, the God of Armies; יהוה is his name of renown!

6. Therefore turn to your God.Keep kindness and justice,and wait continually for your God.

7. A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand.He loves to defraud.

8. Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich,I have found myself wealth.In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”

9. “But I am יהוה your God from the land of Egypt.I will yet again make you dwell in tents,as in the days of the solemn feast.