⁹ It is your destruction, O Israel, that you have been against Me, for in Me is your help.

¹⁰ Where now is your king that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges of whom you said, Give me a king and princes?

¹¹ I have given you a king in My anger, and I have taken him away in My wrath.

¹² The iniquity of Ephraim [not fully punished yet] is bound up [as in a bag]; his sin is laid up in store [for judgment and destruction].

¹⁵ For though among his brethren [his fellow tribes] he may be fruitful, an east wind [Assyria] will come, the breath of the Lord rising from the desert; and Ephraim’s spring shall become dry and his fountain be dried up. [Assyria] shall plunder his treasury of every precious vessel.