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| 1Rejoice not, O Israel! Exult not like the peoples; for you have played the whore, forsaking your God. You have loved a prostitute’s wages on all threshing floors. | 1"Don't celebrate, Israel, like other nations would rejoice, because you left your God by committing fornication, loving the profit you gained on all of the threshing floors. |
| 2Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them. | 2Neither threshing floor nor winepress will sustain them, and the new wine will disappoint her. |
| 3They shall not remain in the land of the LORD, but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria. | 3They will not live in the LORD's land— Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria. |
| 4They 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. | 4They won't present wine offerings to the LORD, nor will they please him. Their sacrifices will seem like food for mourners— everyone who eats them will become unclean; none of them will enter the Temple of the LORD. |
| 5What will you do on the day of the appointed festival, and on the day of the feast of the LORD? | 5"What will you do on the designated holiday, when the LORD's festival comes? |
| 6For 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. | 6Look! They have gone away because of the destruction— Egypt will gather them up, and Memphis will bury them. Weeds will overgrow their inheritance, and thorns will grow in their tents. |
| 7The 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 iniquity and great hatred. | 7The time for your judgment has now come; payday is here— and Israel knows it. The prophet is a fool, and the spiritual man is insane. Because of your great sin, the hatred against you is great. |
| 8The prophet is the watchman of Ephraim with my God; yet a fowler’s snare is on all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God. | 8While Ephraim stands watch with my God, the prophet has snares set that will trap his ways, and hostility lodges in the Temple of his God. |
| 9They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins. | 9They have corrupted themselves deeply, as did Gibeah in its day. Therefore God will remember their lawlessness, and he will pay them back for their sins. |
| 10Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your fathers. But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame, and became detestable like the thing they loved. | 10"I found Israel, as one finds grapes in the wilderness; Your ancestors seemed to me like the fruit gleaned from a fig tree's first harvest. When they went to Baal-peor, they devoted themselves to that filth, and they became loathsome, like what they loved. |
| 11Ephraim’s glory shall fly away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, no conception! | 11The glory of Ephraim will fly away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, not even a conception. |
| 12Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them! | 12Even if they rear their children, I will, in turn, make them childless— in fact, woe to them when I turn away from them! |
| 13Ephraim, as I have seen, was like a young palm planted in a meadow; but Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter. | 13Ephraim, as I see it, is like Tyre, planted in a comfortable place; Ephraim will bear children but they will be executed." |
| 14Give them, O LORD— what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. | 14Give them, LORD— What will you give? You will give them a womb that miscarries and dry breasts. |
| 15Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal; there I began to hate them. 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. | 15"All of their wickedness started in Gilgal, because I began to hate them there. Because of the wickedness of their behavior, I will drive them from my Temple. I will not love them anymore; all their leaders are rebels. |
| 16Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, I will put their beloved children to death. | 16Ephraim is blighted; its roots shriveled. It can bear no fruit. Even if they bear children, I will kill their cherished offspring. |
| 17My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations. | 17"My God will reject them, because they did not obey him, and they will become wanderers among the nations." |
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