1. Do not rejoice, Israel,do not exult like the nations!For you have prostituted yourself, abandoning your God,loving a prostitute’s feeupon every threshing floor.
2. Threshing floor and wine press will not nourish them,the new wine will fail them.
3. They will not dwell in the Lord’s land;Ephraim will return to Egypt,and in Assyria they will eat unclean food.
4. They will not pour libations of wine to the Lord,and their sacrifices will not please him.Their bread will be like mourners’ bread, that makes unclean all who eat of it;Their food will be for their own appetites;it cannot enter the house of the Lord.
5. What will you do on the festival day,the day of the Lord’s feast?
6. When they flee from the devastation,Egypt will gather them, Memphis will bury them.Weeds will overgrow their silver treasures,and thorns, their tents.
7. They have come, the days of punishment!they have come, the days of recompense!Let Israel know it!“The prophet is a fool,the man of the spirit is mad!”Because your iniquity is great,great, too, is your hostility.
8. The watchman of Ephraim, the people of my God, is the prophet;yet a fowler’s snare is on all his ways,hostility in the house of his God.
9. They have sunk to the depths of corruption,as in the days of Gibeah; God will remember their iniquityand punish their sins.
10. Like grapes in the desert,I found Israel;Like the first fruits of the fig tree, its first to ripen,I looked on your ancestors.But when they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the Shameful One,they became as abhorrent as the thing they loved.
11. Ephraim is like a bird:their glory flies away—no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.