¹ Be· not ·glad, O Israel, unto^▵ rejoicing as the peoples; for thou hast committed·​·harlotry from thy God; thou hast loved meretricious^* hire^◦ on every threshing·​·floor of grain.

² The threshing·​·floor and the winepress shall not pasture them, and the must^* shall deny her.

³ They shall not dwell in Jehovah’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

⁴ They shall not pour·​·out wine to Jehovah, nor shall they be·​·agreeable to Him; their sacrifices shall be to them as the bread of sorrows^◦; all that eat of it shall be defiled; for their bread for their soul shall not come·​·into the house of Jehovah.

⁵ What will you do in the solemn day, and in the day of the festival of Jehovah?

⁶ For, behold, they are gone^◦ away because of devastation; Egypt shall bring· them ·together, Memphis shall bury them: their silver shall be desired, kimmos^* shall possess them: the thorny·​·shrub shall be in their tents.

⁷ The days of the visitation have come, the days of the repayment have come; Israel shall know; stupid is the prophet, the man^◦ of the spirit is mad, on·​·account·​·of the multitude of thine iniquity, and much hatred^◦.

⁸ The watchman of Ephraim was with my God; the prophet is like a trap of a fowler in all his ways, hatred^◦ in the house of his God.

⁹ They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their iniquity, He will visit their sins.

¹⁰ I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first·​·fruit in the fig·​·tree in her beginning^◦; but they^◦ came to Baal-peor, and separated^▵ themselves to that shame; and their detestable things were according·​·to their love.

¹¹ As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like^◦ a fowl, from the giving·​·birth, and from the belly, and from the conception.

¹² For though they cause their sons to grow·​·up, yet I will make them bereaved of man; for there is also woe to them when I turn·​·aside from them!

¹³ Ephraim, as^◦ I saw Tyre, is planted^◦ in a home; but Ephraim shall bring·​·forth his sons to^▵ the killer.

¹⁴ Give them, O Jehovah; what wilt Thou Give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

¹⁵ All their evil is in Gilgal; for there I hated them: on·​·account·​·of the evil of their actions I will drive· them ·out from My house, I will love them not again; all their princes are defiant.

¹⁶ Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried·​·up, they shall not^▵ make fruit; even though^◦ they give·​·birth, yet will I put·​·to·​·death the desires of their belly.

¹⁷ My God will reject them, because^◦ they did not hearken unto Him; and they shall be fugitives among^◦ the nations.

¹ Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

² As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;

³ All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

⁴ My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

⁵ God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.

⁶ My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

⁷ Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

⁸ For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

⁹ Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?

¹⁰ Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

¹¹ I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

¹² Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?

¹³ This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

¹⁴ If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

¹⁵ Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

¹⁶ Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

¹⁷ He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

¹⁸ He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.

¹⁹ The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not.

²⁰ Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

²¹ The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

²² For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

²³ Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.