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 You shall observe to do all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.

² You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.

³ He humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you didn't know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh does man live.

⁴ Your clothing didn't grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.

⁵ You shall consider in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so Yahweh your God chastens you.

⁶ You shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

⁷ For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills;

⁸ a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;

⁹ a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.

¹⁰ You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.

¹¹ Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you this day:

¹² lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;

¹³ and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;

¹⁴ then your heart be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

¹⁵ who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, [in which were] fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint;

¹⁶ who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn't know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:

¹⁷ and [lest] you say in your heart, "My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth."

¹⁸ But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day.

¹⁹ It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.

²⁰ As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you wouldn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.