¹ When Ephraim spoke, a horror seized Israel: and he sinned in Baal and died.

³ For now they shall say: We have no king: because we fear not the Lord: and what shall a king do to us?

¹⁵ This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is none besides me." How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.