Woe to the crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, the flower that has fallen from the glory of the top of the fertile mountain, they that are drunken without wine.

How have they become desolate! Suddenly they have failed; they have perished because of their iniquity.

As the dream of one awakening, O Lord, in Your city You will despise their image.

What shall I do unto you, Ephraim? What shall I do to you, Judah? For your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that goes away.

I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness, and I saw their fathers as an early watchman in a fig tree. They went in to Baal Peor, and were shamefully estranged, and the abominable became as the beloved.

Ephraim has flown away as a bird; their glories from the birth, and the travail, and the conception.

Ephraim is sick, he is dried up at his roots, he shall by no means bear fruit any longer. For even if they should beget [children], I will kill the desired [fruit] of their womb.

According to the word of Ephraim he adopted ordinances for himself in Israel; and he established them for Baal, and died.

Though he will cause a division among [his] brothers, the Lord shall bring upon him an east wind from the desert, and shall dry up his veins [and] quite drain his fountains. He shall dry up his land, and [spoil] all his precious vessels.

but the rich [man] in his humiliation, because as a flower of the field he will pass away.

For the sun arose with burning heat and withered the grass, and its flower fell off, and its beautiful appearance perished. So the rich man also shall fade away in his pursuits.

Alas for me! For I have become as one gathering straw in harvest, and as [one gathering] grape-gleanings in the vintage, when there is no cluster for me to eat the first-ripe fruit: alas my soul!

All your strongholds are as fig trees having watchers: if they be shaken, they shall fall into the mouth of the eater.

And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, like a fig tree casting its untimely figs, being shaken by a mighty wind.