¹Don’t rejoice , Israel , to jubilation like the nations ;

for you were unfaithful to your God.

You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor .

²The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them ,

and the new wine will fail her.

³They won’t dwell in the LORD ’s land;

but Ephraim will return to Egypt ,

and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.

⁴They won’t pour out wine offerings to the LORD ,

neither will they be pleasing to him .

Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;

all who eat of it will be polluted ;

for their bread will be for their appetite .

It will not come into the LORD ’s house .

⁵What will you do in the day of solemn assembly ,

and in the day of the feast of the LORD ?

⁶For , behold , when they flee destruction ,

Egypt will gather them up .

Memphis will bury them .

Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver .

Thorns will be in their tents.

⁷The days of visitation have come .

The days of reckoning have come .

Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool,

and the man who is inspired to be insane,

because of the abundance of your sins ,

and because your hostility is great .

⁸A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God.

A fowler ’s snare is on all of his paths ,

and hostility in the house of his God.

⁹They have deeply corrupted themselves ,

as in the days of Gibeah .

He will remember their iniquity .

He will punish them for their sins .

¹⁰I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness .

I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season;

but they came to Baal Peor , and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing ,

and became abominable like that which they loved.

¹¹As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird .

There will be no birth , no one with child , and no conception .

¹²Though they bring up their children ,

yet I will bereave them , so that not a man shall be left .

Indeed , woe also to them when I depart from them !

¹³I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre , planted in a pleasant place ;

but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer .

¹⁴Give them —LORD what will you give ?

Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts .

¹⁵“All their wickedness is in Gilgal ;

for there I hated them .

Because of the wickedness of their deeds , I will drive them out of my house !

I will love them no more .

All their princes are rebels .

¹⁶Ephraim is struck .

Their root has dried up .

They will bear no fruit .

Even though they give birth , yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.”

¹⁷My God will cast them away , because they didn’t listen to him ;

and they will be wanderers amongst the nations .