11. Ephraim’s glory flies away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
12. For if they should raise their children, I would make them childless to the last man. Yes, woe to them when I depart from them!
13. Ephraim, as I have seen, is like Tyre, planted in a meadow, but Ephraim will bring his children out to the slayer.”
14. Give them, Adonai, what will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dried up breasts.