9Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly as the nations do, for you have acted promiscuously, leaving your God. You have loved the wages of a prostitute on every grain-threshing floor.H8055H3478H1524H5971H2181H430H157H868H1637H17152Threshing floor and wine vat will not sustain them, and the new wine will fail them.H1637H3342H7462H8492H35843They will not stay in the land of the LORD. Instead, Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.H3427H3068H776H669H7725H4714H398H2931H8044They will not pour out their wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him. Their [food] will be like the bread of mourners; all who eat it become defiled. For their bread will be for their appetites [alone]; it will not enter the house of the LORD.H5258H3196H3068H6149H2077H3899H205H398H2930H3899H5315H935H1004H30685What will you do on a festival day, on the day of the LORD's feast?H6213H4150H3117H3117H2282H30686For even if they flee from devastation, Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them. Thistles will take possession of their precious silver; thorns will invade their tents.H1980H7701H4714H6908H4644H6912H4261H3701H7057H3423H2336H1687The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have come. Let Israel recognize it! The prophet is a fool, and the inspired man is insane, because of the magnitude of your guilt and hostility.H3117H6486H935H3117H7966H935H3478H3045H5030H191H7307H376H7696H7230H5771H7227H48958Ephraim's watchman is with my God. The prophet [encounters] a fowler's snare on all his ways. Hostility is in the house of his God!H6822H669H430H5030H6341H3352H1870H4895H1004H4309They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.H6009H7843H3117H1390H2142H5771H6485H2403
Ephraim Bereaved of Offspring
10I discovered Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers like the first fruit of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, consecrated themselves to Shame, and became detestable, like the thing they loved.H4672H3478H6025H4057H7200H1H1063H8384H7225H935H1187H5144H1322H8251H15711Ephraim's glory will fly away like a bird: no birth, no gestation, no conception.H669H3519H5774H5775H3205H990H203212Even if they raise children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe to them when I depart from them!H1431H1121H7921H120H188H549313I have seen Ephraim like Tyre, planted in a meadow, so Ephraim will bring out his children to the executioner.H669H7200H6865H8362H5116H669H3318H1121H202614Give them, LORD— What should You give? Give them a womb that miscarries and breasts that are dry!H5414H3068H5414H5414H7921H7358H6784H769915All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I came to hate them. I will drive them from My house because of their evil, wicked actions. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.H7451H1537H8130H7455H4611H1644H1004H160H3254H8269H563716Ephraim is blighted; their roots are withered; they cannot bear fruit. Even if they bear children, I will kill the precious offspring of their wombs.H669H5221H8328H3001H6213H6529H3205H4191H4261H99017My God will reject them because they have not listened to Him; they will become wanderers among the nations.H430H3988H8085H5074H1471
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