4. They shall pour out no offerings of wine to Jehovah, neither shall their sacrifices be pleasing unto him: they shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be defiled: for their bread shall be for themselves; it shall not come into the house of Jehovah.
5. What will ye do in the day of assembly, and in the day of the feast of Jehovah?
6. For behold, they are gone away because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Moph shall bury them: their pleasant things of silver, nettles shall possess them; thorns shall be in their tents.
7. The days of visitation are come; the days of recompence are come: Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the inspired man is mad, because of the greatness of thine iniquity, and the great enmity.
8. Is Ephraim a watchman with my God nay the prophet is a fowler's snare on all his ways, enmity in the house of his God
9. They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
10. I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness; as first-ripe fruit on the fig-tree, I saw your fathers at the beginning: they went to Baal-Peor, and separated themselves unto that shame, and became abominations like their lover.
11. As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away as a bird, --no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
12. For even should they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that not a man remain: for woe also to them when I shall have departed from them!