8. I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs,and I will tear open the covering of their hearts.I will devour them like a lion,as a wild animal would eat them.
9. I will destroy you, Israel;for you didn’t realize that I could help you.
10. Where is your king now,so that he can save you?Where in all your cities are your judges,of whom you said,"Give me a king and rulers"?
11. I gave you a king in my anger,and I took him away in my wrath.
12. Ephraim’s wickedness is bound up;his sin is kept in store.
13. The pangs of a woman in childbirth come for him,but he is not aware of the time to be born;for at the proper time he doesn’t present himselfat the mouth of the womb.