²² The wind^(A) will drive all your shepherds^(B) away,
    and your allies^(C) will go into exile.
Then you will be ashamed and disgraced^(D)
    because of all your wickedness.

⁷ “They sow the wind
    and reap the whirlwind.^(A)
The stalk has no head;
    it will produce no flour.^(B)
Were it to yield grain,
    foreigners would swallow it up.^(C)

¹³ “When Ephraim^(A) saw his sickness,
    and Judah his sores,
then Ephraim turned to Assyria,^(B)
    and sent to the great king for help.^(C)
But he is not able to cure^(D) you,
    not able to heal your sores.^(E)

Through a land of hardship and distress,^(C)
    of lions^(D) and lionesses,
    of adders and darting snakes,^(E)
the envoys carry their riches on donkeys’^(F) backs,
    their treasures^(G) on the humps of camels,
to that unprofitable nation,
⁷     to Egypt, whose help is utterly useless.^(H)
Therefore I call her
    Rahab^(I) the Do-Nothing.

² “Would a wise person answer with empty notions
    or fill their belly with the hot east wind?^(A)