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    Strangers have eaten up his strength,
            yet he doesn’t know it;
        gray hairs are sprinkled here and there upon him,
            yet he doesn’t know it.
10     Israel’s pride is a witness against him;
            yet they don’t return to the Lord their God,
                or seek him because of all this.

Foolishness and God’s wrath

11 Ephraim has become like a dove,
        silly and without common sense;
        they call upon Egypt; they go to Assyria.

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