¹³ When Ephraim saw his sickness,
    and Judah ^(A)his wound,
then Ephraim went ^(B)to Assyria,
    and sent to the great king.^[a]
(C)But he is not able to cure you
    or heal ^(D)your wound.

⁷ For ^(A)they sow the wind,
    and they shall reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no heads;
    it shall yield no flour;
if it were to yield,
    ^(B)strangers would devour it.

Through a land of trouble and anguish,
    from where come the lioness and the lion,
    the adder and the ^(D)flying fiery serpent,
they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys,
    and their treasures on the humps of camels,
    to a people that cannot profit them.
⁷ Egypt's ^(E)help is worthless and empty;
    therefore I have called her
    ^(F)“Rahab who sits still.”

² “Should ^(A)a wise man answer with ^(B)windy knowledge,
    and fill his ^(C)belly with ^(D)the east wind?