1   Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast apostatized from thy God, thou hast loved ^note a reward ^note upon every corn-floor.

2   The floor and the ^note wine-press shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.

3   They shall not dwell in the Lord's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

4   They shall not offer wine-offerings to the Lord, neither shall they be pleasing to him: their sacrifices shall be to them as the bread of mourners; all that eat of it shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the Lord.

5   What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the Lord?

6   For lo, they are gone because of ^note destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: ^{note note} 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 ^note spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thy 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 ^note in the house of his God.

9   They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of ^note 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 ^note Baal-peor, and separated themselves to that shame; and their abominations 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 Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.

14   Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a ^note miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

15   All their wickedness ^note is in Gilgal: ^note 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 revolters.

16   Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yes, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even ^note the beloved fruit of their womb.

17   My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken to him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

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