8Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.
9For they have gone up to Assyria like a wild donkey on its own. Ephraim has hired lovers.
10Though they hire allies among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to diminish under the oppression of the king of princes.
11Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.
12Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.
13Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.
14Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.