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It is your destruction, O Israel,
Because you are against Me, [and have rebelled] against your help.
¹⁰ 
Where now is your king
That he may save you [when you are attacked] in all your cities?
And your judges of whom you asked,
“Give me a king and princes”?
¹¹ 
I gave you a king in My anger,
And I took him away in My wrath [as punishment].

¹² 
The wickedness of Ephraim [which is not yet completely punished] is bound up [as in a bag];
His sin is stored up [for judgment and destruction].

¹⁵ 
For though he flourishes among the reeds (his fellow tribes),
An east wind (Assyria) will come,
The breath of the Lord rising from the desert;
And Ephraim’s spring will become dry
And his fountain will be dried up.
Assyria will plunder his treasury of every precious object.