CAB(i)
8 The Lord has sent death upon Jacob, and it has come upon Israel.
9 And all the people of Ephraim, and those that dwelt in Samaria shall know, who say in their pride and lofty heart,
10 The bricks are fallen down, but come, let us hew stones, and cut down sycamores and cedars, and let us build for ourselves a tower.
11 And God shall dash them down that rise up against Him on Mount Zion, and He shall scatter His enemies;
12 even Syria from the rising of the sun, and the Greeks from the setting of the sun, who devour Israel with open mouth. For all this His anger is not turned away, but still His hand is exalted.
13 But the people turned not until they were smitten, and they sought not the Lord.
14 So the Lord took away from Israel the head and tail, great and small, in one day;
15 the old man, and them that respect persons, this is the head; and the prophet teaching unlawful things, he is the tail.
16 And they that pronounce this people blessed shall mislead them; and they mislead them that they may devour them.
17 Therefore the Lord shall not take pleasure in their young men, neither shall He have pity on their orphans or on their widows; for they are all transgressors and wicked, and every mouth speaks unjustly. For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is yet exalted.
18 And iniquity shall burn as fire, and shall be devoured by fire as dry grass; and it shall burn in the thickets of the wood, and shall devour all that is round about the hills.
19 The whole earth is set on fire because of the fierce anger of the Lord, and the people shall be as men burned by fire; no man shall pity his brother.
20 But one shall turn aside to the right hand, for he shall be hungry; and shall eat on the left, and a man shall by no means be satisfied with eating the flesh of his own arm.
21 For Manasseh shall eat the flesh of Ephraim, and Ephraim the flesh of Manasseh; for they shall besiege Judah together. For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is yet exalted.