^36 (A)How much you go about,
    changing your way!
You shall be ^(B)put to shame by Egypt
    as you were put to shame by Assyria.

^22 (A)How long will you waver,
    ^(B)O faithless daughter?
For the Lord has created a new thing on the earth:
    a woman encircles a man.”

12 Ephraim feeds on the wind
    and pursues ^(A)the east wind all day long;
they multiply ^(B)falsehood and violence;
    ^(C)they make a covenant with Assyria,
    and ^(D)oil is carried to Egypt.

^23 (A)How can you say, ‘I am not unclean,
    I have not gone after the Baals’?
Look at your way ^(B)in the valley;
    know what you have done—
a restless young camel running here and there,

^3 (A)Assyria shall not save us;
    ^(B)we will not ride on horses;
and ^(C)we will say no more, ‘Our God,’
    to the work of our hands.
^(D)In you the orphan finds mercy.”

^6 (A)The thing itself shall be carried to Assyria
    as tribute to ^(B)the great king.^[a]
Ephraim shall be put to shame,
    and Israel shall be ashamed ^(C)of his idol.^[b]