1. Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as [other] people for thou hast apostatized from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every corn-floor.
2. The floor and the wine-press shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
3. They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean [things] in Assyria.
4. They shall not offer wine-[offerings] to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing to him their sacrifices [shall be] to them as the bread of mourners; all that eat of it shall be polluted for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.
5. What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?
6. For lo, they are gone because of destruction Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them the pleasant [places] for their silver, nettles shall possess them thorns [shall be] in their tabernacles.
7. The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know [it] the prophet [is] a fool, the spiritual man [is] mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the great hatred.
8. The watchman of Ephraim [was] with my God [but] the prophet [is] a snare of a fowler in all his ways, [and] hatred in the house of his God.
9. They have deeply corrupted [themselves], as in the days of Gibeah [therefore] he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
10. I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig-tree at her first time [but] they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves to [that] shame; and [their] abominations were according as they loved.
11. [As for] Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
12. Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, [that there shall] not [be] a man [left] yes, woe also to them when I depart from them!
13. Ephraim, as I saw Tyre, [is] planted in a pleasant place but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
14. Give them, O LORD what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
15. All their wickedness [is] in Gilgal for there I hated them for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more all their princes [are] revolters.
16. Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit yes, though they bring forth, yet will I slay [even] the beloved [fruit] of their womb.
17. My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken to him and they shall be wanderers among the nations.