8That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not faithful to God.
9The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot with the bow: they have turned back in the day of battle.
10They kept not the covenant of God: and in his law they would not walk.
11And they forgot his benefits, and his wonders that he had shewn them.