¹³ As I have seen a beast whose young have been taken from her, so Ephraim will give birth to children only for them to be put to death.

²⁵ Let us be stretched on the earth in our downfall, covering ourselves with our shame: for we have been sinners against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our earliest years even till this day: and we have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God.