9Do not rejoice, O Israel! Do not exult as other nations do; for you have played the whore, departing from your God. You have loved a prostitute's pay on all threshing floors.H8055H3478H1524H5971H2181H430H157H868H1637H17152Threshing floor and winevat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them.H1637H3342H7462H8492H35843They shall not remain in the land of the LORD; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and in Assyria they shall eat unclean food.H3427H3068H776H669H7725H4714H398H2931H8044They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the LORD, and their sacrifices shall not please him. Such sacrifices shall be like mourners' bread; 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.H5258H3196H3068H6149H2077H3899H205H398H2930H3899H5315H935H1004H30685What will you do on the day of appointed festival, and on the day of the festival of the LORD?H6213H4150H3117H3117H2282H30686For even if they escape destruction, Egypt shall gather them, Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver; thorns shall be in their tents.H1980H7701H4714H6908H4644H6912H4261H3701H7057H3423H2336H1687The days of punishment have come, the days of recompense have come; Israel cries, "The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is mad!" Because of your great iniquity, your hostility is great.H3117H6486H935H3117H7966H935H3478H3045H5030H191H7307H376H7696H7230H5771H7227H48958The prophet is a sentinel for my God over Ephraim, yet a fowler's snare is on all his ways, and hostility in the house of his God.H6822H669H430H5030H6341H3352H1870H4895H1004H4309They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; he will remember their iniquity, he will punish their sins.H6009H7843H3117H1390H2142H5771H6485H240310Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree, in its first season, I saw your ancestors. But they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to a thing of shame, and became detestable like the thing they loved.H4672H3478H6025H4057H7200H1H1063H8384H7225H935H1187H5144H1322H8251H15711Ephraim's glory shall fly away like a bird—no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!H669H3519H5774H5775H3205H990H203212Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them until no one is left. Woe to them indeed when I depart from them!H1431H1121H7921H120H188H549313Once I saw Ephraim as a young palm planted in a lovely meadow, but now Ephraim must lead out his children for slaughter.H669H7200H6865H8362H5116H669H3318H1121H202614Give them, O LORD—what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.H5414H3068H5414H5414H7921H7358H6784H769915Every evil of theirs began at Gilgal; there I came 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 officials are rebels.H7451H1537H8130H7455H4611H1644H1004H160H3254H8269H563716Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, I will kill the cherished offspring of their womb.H669H5221H8328H3001H6213H6529H3205H4191H4261H99017Because they have not listened to him, my God will reject them; they shall become wanderers among the nations.H430H3988H8085H5074H1471
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