Ephraim 'was' a watchman with my God: as for the prophet, a fowler's snare is in all his ways, 'and' enmity in the house of his God.
Þe biholdere of Effraym with my God is a profete; a snare of fallyng is maad now on alle þe weies of hym, woodnesse is in þe hous of his God.