Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in (their own) counsels (and) in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: I will change their glory into shame.
When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah (saw) his wound, then went Ephraim to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.
They shall not return into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian shall be their king, because they refused to return (to me).
And the sword shall fall upon their cities, and shall consume their bars, and devour (them), because of their own counsels.