1 Rejoice not, Oh Israel, for joy, as other people: for you have committed fornication from your God, you have loved a reward upon every corn floor.
2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
3 They shall not dwell in Jehovah 's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat impure things in Assyria.
4 They shall not offer wine offerings to Jehovah, neither shall they be pleasing to him: their sacrifices shall be to them as the bread of mourners; all that eat 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 feast of Jehovah ?
6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.
7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of your iniquity, and the great hatred.
8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.
9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves to that shame; and their detestable things were according as they loved.
11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yes, woe also to them when I depart from them!
13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
14 Give them, oh, Jehovah; what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more: all their princes are stubborn rebels.
16 Ephraim is struck, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yes, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.
17 My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.