As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, none with child, and no conception.
The people do not like Hosea’s denunciations and warnings. He is God’s messenger to them, the nation’s watchman, but they call him a fool and a madman. They even plot to kill him (7-8). Their sin is as great as that of Gibeah in the time of the judges (9; see Judges 19:1-48).