9

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].