³ But I was guiding Ephraim's footsteps; I took them up in my arms, but they were not conscious that I was ready to make them well.

¹⁷ Therefore thus says Yahweh: 'Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'"