^1. DO not rejoice, O Israel, [4] with exultation like the [3] nations! For you have played the harlot, [2] forsaking your God. You have loved harlots' earnings on [1] every threshing floor.

^2. Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them, And the new wine will fail [5] them.

^3. They will not remain in the LORD'S land, But Ephraim will return to Egypt, And in Assyria they will eat unclean food.

^4. They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the LORD, Their sacrifices will not please Him. Their bread will [8] be like [7] mourners' bread; All who eat of it will be defiled, For their bread will be for [6] 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; [10] Let Israel know this! The prophet is a fool, The [9] 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 [11] 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 [12] 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 [13] until not a man is left. Yes, woe to them indeed when I depart from them!

^13. Ephraim, as I have seen, Is planted in a pleasant meadow like Tyre; But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.

^14. Give them, O LORD -- what will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

^15. All their evil is at Gilgal; Indeed, I came to hate them there! Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of My house! I will love them no more; All their princes are rebels.

^16. Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up, They will bear no fruit. Even though they bear children, I will slay the precious ones of their womb.

^17. My God will cast them away Because they have not listened to Him; And they will be wanderers among the nations.