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.
