1   Reioyce not, O Israel for ioy ^note as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God: thou hast loued ^note a rewarde vpon euery corne floore.

2    ^noteThe floore, and the wine presse shall not feede them, and the newe wine shall faile in her.

3   They wil not dwel in the Lordes lande, but Ephraim will returne to Egypt, and they will eate vncleane things in Asshur.

4   They shall not offer ^note wine to the Lorde, neither shall their sacrifices be pleasant vnto him: but they shall be vnto them as the bread of mourners: al that eate thereof, shalbe polluted: for their bread ^note for their soules shall not come into the house of the Lord.

5   What wil ye do ^note then in the solemne day, and in the day of the feast of the Lord?

6   For loe, they are gone from ^note destruction: but Egypt shal gather them vp, and Memphis shall burie them: the nettle shall possesse the pleasant places of their siluer, and the thorne shall be in their tabernacles.

7   The daies of visitation are come: the daies of recompence are come: Israel shall knowe it: ^note the Prophet is a foole: the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquitie: therefore the hatred is great.

8   The watchman of Ephraim ^note shoulde bee with my God: but the Prophet is the snare of a fouler in all his waies, and hatred in the House of his God.

9   They ^note are deepely set: they are corrupt as in the daies of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquitie, he will visite their sinnes.

10   I found Israel like ^note grapes in the wildernes: I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the figge tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-Peor, and separated themselues vnto that shame, and their abominations were according to ^note their louers.

11   Ephraim their glorie shall flee away like a birde: from the birth ^note and from the wombe, and from the conception.

12   Though they bring vp their children, yet I will depriue them from being men: yea, woe to them, when I depart from them.

13   Ephraim, as I sawe, is as a tree ^note in Tyrus planted in a cottage: but Ephraim shal bring forth his children to the murtherer.

14   O Lorde, giue them: what wilt thou giue them? giue them a ^note baren wombe and drie breasts.

15   All their wickednesse is in ^note Gilgal: for there doe I hate them: for the wickednesse of their inuentions, I will cast them out of mine House: I will loue them no more: all their princes are rebels.

16   Ephraim is smitten, their roote is dried vp: The calfe of Israel. they can bring no fruite: yea, though they bring foorth, yet will I slaie euen the dearest of their bodie.

17   My God will cast them away, because they did not obey him: and they shall wander among the nations.

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