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1Do not rejoice, O Israel![#Isa 22.12, 13; Jer 44.17; Hos 4.12; 10.5]
Do not exult as other nations do,
for you have prostituted yourself, departing from your God.
You have loved a prostitute’s pay
on all threshing floors.
2Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them,[#Hos 2.9]
and the new wine shall fail them.
3They shall not remain in the land of the Lord ,[#Jer 2.7; Ezek 4.13; Hos 7.11; 8.13]
but Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
and in Assyria they shall eat unclean food.
4They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the Lord ,[#Jer 6.20; Hos 5.6; 8.13; Hag 2.14]
and their sacrifices shall not please him.
Such sacrifices shall be like mourners’ bread;
all who eat of it shall be defiled,
for their bread shall be for their hunger only;
it shall not come to the house of the Lord .
5What will you do on the day of appointed festival[#Isa 10.3; Jer 5.31; Joel 1.13]
and on the day of the festival of the Lord ?
6For even if they escape destruction,[#Isa 5.6; Jer 2.16; Ezek 30.13, 16; Hos 8.13; 10.8]
Egypt shall gather them;
Memphis shall bury them.
Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver;
thorns shall be in their tents.
7The days of punishment have come;[#Isa 34.8; Jer 10.15; 16.18; Ezek 14.9, 10; Mic 7.4]
the days of recompense have come.
Israel will cry out,
“The prophet is a fool;
the man of the spirit is mad!”
Because of your great iniquity,
your hostility is great.
8The prophet is a sentinel for my God over Ephraim,[#Hos 5.1]
yet a hunter’s snare is on all his ways
and hostility in the house of his God.
9They have deeply corrupted themselves[#Judg 19.12; Isa 31.6; Hos 5.8; 7.2; 8.13; 10.9]
as in the days of Gibeah;
he will remember their iniquity;
he will punish their sins.
10Like grapes in the wilderness,[#Num 25.3; Jer 11.13; 24.2; Hos 4.14; Mic 7.1]
I found Israel.
Like the first fruit on the fig tree,
in its first season,
I saw your ancestors.
But they came to Baal-peor
and consecrated themselves to a thing of shame
and became detestable like the thing they loved.
11Ephraim’s glory shall fly away like a bird—[#v 14 ; Hos 4.7; 10.5]
no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
12Even if they bring up children,[#v 16 ; Hos 7.13]
I will bereave them until no one is left.
Woe to them indeed
when I depart from them!
13Once I saw Ephraim as a young palm planted in a lovely meadow,[#Ezek 27.3, 4; #9.13 Meaning of Heb uncertain]
but now Ephraim must lead out his children for slaughter.
14Give them, O Lord —
what will you give?
Give them a miscarrying womb
and dry breasts.
15Every evil of theirs began at Gilgal;[#Isa 1.23; Hos 4.9; 7.2; 12.2]
there I came to hate them.
Because of the wickedness of their deeds
I will drive them out of my house.
I will love them no more;
all their officials are rebels.
16Ephraim is stricken,[#v 12 ; Hos 5.11; 8.7]
their root is dried up,
they shall bear no fruit.
Even though they give birth,
I will kill the cherished offspring of their womb.
17Because they have not listened to him,[#Deut 28.65; Hos 4.10]
my God will reject them;
they shall become wanderers among the nations.