1. Rejoice not, O Israel!Exult not like the peoples; for you have played the whore, forsaking your God. You have loved a prostitute’s wageson all threshing floors.
2. Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them,and the new wine shall fail them.
3. They shall not remain in the land of the Lord,but Ephraim shall return to Egypt,and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.
4. They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the Lord, and their sacrifices shall not please him.It shall be like mourners’ bread to them;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.
5. What will you do on the day of the appointed festival,and on the day of the feast of the Lord?
6. For behold, they are going away from destruction;but Egypt shall gather them;Memphis shall bury them.Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver; thorns shall be in their tents.
7. The days of punishment have come;the days of recompense have come;Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool;the man of the spirit is mad,because of your great iniquityand great hatred.