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 Come near, you nations, to hear! Listen, you peoples. Let the earth and all it contains hear; the world, and everything that comes from it.

² For Yahweh is enraged against all the nations, and angry with all their armies. He has utterly destroyed them. He has given them over for slaughter.

³ Their slain will also be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies will come up; and the mountains will melt in their blood.

⁴ All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.

⁵ For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it will come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, for judgment.

⁶ Yahweh's sword is filled with blood. It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

⁷ The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drunken with blood, and their dust made greasy with fat.

⁸ For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

⁹ Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, And its land will become burning pitch.

¹⁰ It won't be quenched night nor day. Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation, it will lie waste. No one will pass through it forever and ever.

¹¹ But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.

¹² They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.

¹³ Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.

¹⁴ The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves, and the wild goat will cry to his fellow. Yes, the night creature shall settle there, and shall find herself a place of rest.

¹⁵ The arrow snake will make her nest there, and lay, hatch, and gather under her shade. Yes, the kites will be gathered there, every one with her mate.

¹⁶ Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. none will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.

¹⁷ He has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to them with a measuring line. They shall possess it forever. From generation to generation they will dwell in it.