⁷ Because they sow the wind,
    they will reap the whirlwind.
    The standing grain forms no heads,
    so it will yield no flour.
    Even if it would yield flour, foreigners would swallow it up.
⁸ Israel is swallowed up.
    Now among the nations they are like a pot no one wants.
⁹ For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey all by itself.
    Ephraim has hired lovers.