26  Do you think that you can reprove words,

when the speech of a despairing man is ^owind?

2  “How long will you say these things,

and the words of your mouth be a ^dgreat wind?

1  Ephraim feeds on the wind

and pursues ^zthe east wind all day long;

they multiply ^yfalsehood and violence;

^athey make a covenant with Assyria,

and ^boil is carried to Egypt.