4. They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the Lord, Their sacrifices will not please Him. Their bread will be like mourners' bread; All who eat of it will be defiled, For their bread will be for themselves alone; It will not enter 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 will go because of destruction; Egypt will gather them up, Memphis will bury them. Weeds will take over their treasures of silver; Thorns will be in their tents.
7. The days of punishment have come, The days of retribution have come; Let Israel know this! The prophet is a fool, The inspired man is demented, Because of the grossness of your iniquity, And because your hostility is so great.
8. Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet; Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways, And there is only hostility in the house of his God.
9. They have gone deep in depravity As in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their iniquity, He will punish their sins.
10. I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your forefathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season. But they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame, And they became as detestable as that which they loved.
11. As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird- No birth, no pregnancy and no conception!
12. Though they bring up their children, Yet I will bereave them until not a man is left. Yes, woe to them indeed when I depart from them!