30:10 The messengers journeyed from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun, but people mocked and ridiculed them. 1 30:11 But some men from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
25:7 But a prophet 2 visited him and said: “O king, the Israelite troops must not go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel or any of the Ephraimites. 3
5:4 Their wicked deeds do not allow them to return to their God;
because a spirit of idolatry 5 controls their heart, 6
and they do not acknowledge the Lord.
7:8 Ephraim has mixed itself like flour 7 among the nations;
Ephraim is like a ruined cake of bread that is scorched on one side. 8
7:9 Foreigners are consuming what his strenuous labor produced, 9
but he does not recognize it!
His head is filled with gray hair,
but he does not realize it!
11:8 How can I give you up, 10 O Ephraim?
How can I surrender you, O Israel?
How can I treat you like Admah?
How can I make you like Zeboiim?
I have had a change of heart! 11
All my tender compassions are aroused! 12