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)
8 Israel is swallowed up;^(D)
    now she is among the nations
    like something no one wants.^(E)
9 For they have gone up to Assyria^(F)
    like a wild donkey^(G) wandering alone.
    Ephraim has sold herself to lovers.^(H)