46:1 Bel 1 kneels down,
Nebo 2 bends low.
Their images weigh down animals and beasts. 3
Your heavy images are burdensome to tired animals. 4
46:2 Together they bend low and kneel down;
they are unable to rescue the images; 5
they themselves 6 head off into captivity. 7
57:9 You take olive oil as tribute 8 to your king, 9
along with many perfumes. 10
You send your messengers to a distant place;
you go all the way to Sheol. 11
8:9 They have gone up to Assyria,
like a wild donkey that wanders off.
Ephraim has hired prostitutes as lovers. 12
8:10 Even though they have hired lovers among the nations, 13
I will soon gather them together for judgment. 14
Then 15 they will begin to waste away
under the oppression of a mighty king. 16
12:1 Ephraim continually feeds on the wind;
he chases the east wind all day;
he multiplies lies and violence.
They make treaties 17 with Assyria,
and send olive oil as tribute 18 to Egypt.