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.

¹³ I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh: no grapes shall be on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and [the things that] I have given them shall pass away from them.

¹⁴ Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.

¹⁵ We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!

¹⁶ The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembles; for they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it; the city and those who dwell therein.

¹⁷ For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Yahweh.

¹⁸ Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.

¹⁹ Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: isn't Yahweh in Zion? Isn't her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign vanities?

²⁰ The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

²¹ For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay has taken hold on me.

²² Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered?