1
Rejoice not, O Israel , for joy , as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God , thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
2
The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
3
They shall not dwell in the LORD 's land ; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt , and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
4
They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD , neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted : for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD .
5
What will ye do in the solemn day , and in the day of the feast of the LORD ?
6
For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver , nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles .
7
The days of visitation are come , the days of recompence are come ; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad , for the multitude of thine iniquity , and the great hatred.
8
The watchman of Ephraim was with my God : but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways , and hatred in the house of his God .
9
They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah : therefore he will remember their iniquity , he will visit their sins .
10
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness ; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-peor , and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved .
11
As for Ephraim , their glory shall fly away like a bird , from the birth , and from the womb , and from the conception.
12
Though they bring up their children , yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
13
Ephraim , as I saw Tyrus , is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
14
Give them, O LORD : what wilt thou Give ? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts .
15
All their wickedness is in Gilgal : for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house , I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.
16
Ephraim is smitten , their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit : yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb .
17
My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations .