Do not rejoice, O Israel,
To exult like the nations.
For you have gone as a harlot away from your God;
You have loved payment
Upon every grain floor.

The threshing floor and the winepress will not feed them,
And the new wine will fail her.

They will not dwell in the land of Jehovah;
But Ephraim will return to Egypt,
And in Assyria they will eat what is unclean.

They will not pour out offerings of wine to Jehovah,
Neither will their sacrifices be pleasing to Him;
They will be to them as the bread of mourning;
All who eat them will be unclean,
For their bread will be for themselves;
It will not come into the house of Jehovah.

What will you do
In the day of assembly
And in the day of the feast of Jehovah?

For they will go because of destruction;
Egypt will gather them;
 ¹Moph will bury them.
As for their desirable  ²things of silver, nettles will dispossess them;
Thistles will be in their tents.

The days of the visitation have come;
The days of the recompense have come;
Israel will know it.
The prophet is a fool,
The  ¹inspired man is mad,
Because of the greatness of your iniquity
And because of the greatness of the enmity.

Ephraim was a  ¹watchman
With my God.
As for the  ²prophet, a fowler's trap
Is in all his ways;
Enmity is in the house of his God.

They have deeply corrupted themselves
As in the days of  ¹Gibeah;
He will remember their iniquity;
He will punish their sins.

I  ¹found Israel
Like grapes in the wilderness;
I saw your fathers
As the first ripe fruit on the fig tree at its beginning.
They went to Baal-peor
And sanctified themselves unto the shameful thing,
And they became detestable, like the thing that they loved.

As for Ephraim, their glory
Will fly away like a bird —
No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!

For even if they bring up their children,
I will bereave them, so that not a man is left.
Indeed woe also to them
When I turn away from them.

Ephraim, as I have seen him,
Is planted like Tyre in a meadow;
But Ephraim will bring forth
His children to the slayer.

Give them, O Jehovah —
What will You give them?
Give them a miscarrying womb
And dry breasts.

All their evil is in Gilgal,
For there I hated them.
Because of the evil of their doings
I will drive them from My house,
I will love them no more;
All their princes are rebels.

Ephraim is stricken;
Their root is dried up;
They will not bear fruit.
Indeed though they bring forth,
I will kill the beloved fruit of their womb.

My God has rejected them,
For they did not listen to Him.
And they will be wanderers among the nations.

Israel is a luxuriant vine;
He brings forth fruit for  ¹himself.
According to the abundance of his fruit
He has multiplied altars;
According to the goodness of their land
They have made pillars well.

Their heart is divided;
Now they will be found guilty.
He Himself will break down their altars;
He will destroy their pillars.

For now they will say,
We have  ¹no king,
For we did not fear Jehovah;
And the king, what can he do for us?

They speak mere words,
Swearing falsely
While making a covenant;
And judgment sprouts forth like poisonous weeds
In the furrows of the field.

The inhabitants of Samaria will fear
For the calves of  ¹Beth-aven;
For its people will mourn over it,
And its idol priests  ²will tremble for it,
For its glory,
Because it has departed from it.

Indeed it will be carried to Assyria:
A present to the warrior king.
Ephraim will be taken in shame,
And Israel will be ashamed of his own counsel.

Samaria will be cut off with her king
And will be like twigs on the surface of the water.

And the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel,
Will be destroyed.
The thorn and the thistle will come up
Upon their altars;
And they will say to the mountains, Cover us!
And to the hills, Fall on us!

Since the days of Gibeah
You have sinned, O Israel;
There they have stood.
Did not the battle
Overtake them in Gibeah
Because of the children of iniquity?

When I so desire, I will chastise them;
And the peoples will be gathered against them,
When they are bound for their  ¹double iniquity.

And Ephraim is a trained heifer
That loves to tread the grain;
But I have passed the yoke
Over her fair neck:
I will make Ephraim draw the plow;
Judah will plow;
Jacob will break his clods.

 ¹Sow unto righteousness for yourselves;
Reap according to lovingkindness;
Break up your  ²fallow ground;
For it is time to seek Jehovah
Until He comes and rains
Righteousness on you.

You have plowed wickedness;
You have reaped injustice;
You have eaten the fruit of lying.
For you have trusted in your way,
In the multitude of your mighty men.

And a  ¹tumult will arise among your peoples;
And all your fortresses will be devastated,
As Shalman devastated Beth-arbel
In the day of battle:
The mother was dashed in pieces with the children.

Thus Bethel will cause this to happen to you
Because of your great evil:
At  ¹dawn the king of Israel
Will be utterly cut off.

When Israel was a child, I  ¹loved him,
And out of Egypt I called My  ²son.

As  ¹they called them,
So they went from them;
To the Baals they sacrificed,
And to the idols they burned incense.

And it was I who taught Ephraim to walk
(He took them in His arms),
But they did not know that I healed them.

I drew them  ¹with cords of a man,
With bands of love;
And I was to them like those
Who lift off the  ²yoke on their jaws;
And I gently caused them to  ²eat.

They will not return to the land of Egypt,
But the Assyrian will be their king,
For they refused to return to Me.

And the sword will whirl about in their cities
And will consume their bars,
And it will devour them because of their own counsels.

Indeed My people are bent upon turning away from Me;
Though they call them to Him who is on high,
None at all exalts Him.

How shall I give you up, O Ephraim?
How shall I deliver you up, O Israel?
How can I make you like  ¹Admah?
How can I treat you like Zeboim?
My heart is turned within Me;
All My compassions have warmed.

I will not execute the fierceness of My anger;
I will not return to destroy Ephraim;
For I am God and not man,
The Holy One in the midst of you,
And I will not come in wrath.

They will walk after Jehovah;
He will roar like a lion.
For He will roar,
And the children will come trembling from the west.

They will come trembling like a bird from Egypt
And like a dove from the land of Assyria.
And I will cause them to dwell in their houses,
Declares Jehovah.

Ephraim encompasses Me with lies,
And the house of Israel, with deceit;
And Judah is yet unsteadfast with God
And with the Holy One, the Faithful One.

Ephraim feeds on wind
And follows the east wind continually;
He multiplies lies and violence.
They make a covenant with Assyria,
And oil is carried into Egypt.

Jehovah has also a controversy with Judah
And will punish Jacob according to his ways;
According to his doings He will recompense him.

In the womb he grasped his brother by the heel,
And in his full strength he contended with God.

Indeed he contended with the  ¹Angel and prevailed;
He wept and made supplication to Him.
At Bethel he found Him;
And there He spoke with us,

Even Jehovah the God of hosts;
Jehovah is His memorial.

And you, return there to your God;
Keep lovingkindness and justice,
And wait on your God continually.

He is a merchant;
In his hand are balances of deceit;
He loves to extort.

And Ephraim said,
I have surely become rich;
I have found wealth for myself.
In all my labors
They will find with me
No iniquity, which would be sin.

But I have been Jehovah your God
Since the land of Egypt;
Yet again I will cause you to dwell in tents
As in the days of the appointed feast.

I have also spoken unto the prophets:
And I have multiplied vision,
And through the prophets I have used similitudes.

Is Gilead iniquity? They are altogether vanity.
In Gilgal they sacrifice oxen;
Indeed their altars are like heaps
In the furrows of a field.

And Jacob fled into the country of  ¹Aram;
And Israel served for a wife,
And for a wife he kept sheep.

And by a prophet Jehovah brought Israel up from Egypt,
And by a prophet he was kept.

Ephraim provoked Him to bitter anger;
Therefore his Lord will leave his bloodshed upon him
And will recompense him with his own reproach.

When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling.
He exalted himself in Israel;
But he trespassed through Baal and died.

And now they sin more and more
And make molten images for themselves out of their silver,
Idols according to their own understanding,
All of it the work of craftsmen.
Of them they say,
Let the men who sacrifice
Kiss the calves.

Therefore they will be like a morning cloud
And like dew that departs early,
Like chaff driven by a storm wind from the threshing floor
And like smoke from a window vent.

But I have been Jehovah your God
Since the land of Egypt;
And you were to know no god except Me,
For there is no savior besides Me.

I knew you in the wilderness,
In the land of great drought.

According to their pasturage they became full;
They became full, and their heart was exalted;
Therefore they have forgotten Me.

Thus I will be to them like a lion;
Like a leopard I will watch them along the way.

I will meet them like a bear robbed of her cubs,
And I will tear away the covering of their heart;
And I will devour them there like a lioness;
The beast of the field will tear them to pieces.

It is your destruction, O Israel,
That you are against Me, against your help.

Where then is your king,
That he may save you in all your cities,
And your judges of whom you said,
Give me a king and some princes?

I gave you a  ¹king in My anger
And took him away in My overflowing wrath.

The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up;
His sin is laid up in store.

The pains of a woman giving birth will come upon him.
He is an unwise son;
For he should not delay at the time
The children break forth.

From the power of  ¹Sheol I will ransom them;
From eath I will redeem them.
Where are your plagues, O death?
Where is your destruction, O  ¹Sheol?
 ²Repentance will be hidden from My eyes.

Even if he should be fruitful among his brothers,
An east wind will come,
A wind of Jehovah
Coming up from the wilderness,
And his spring will become dry,
And his fountain will be dried up.
He will plunder the treasure
Of every desirable vessel.

Samaria will be guilty,
For she rebelled against her God.
They will fall by the sword;
Their children will be dashed in pieces,
And their pregnant women will be ripped up.

Return, O Israel,
To Jehovah your God,
For you have fallen by your iniquity.

Take words with you,
And return to Jehovah;
Say to Him,
Forgive all iniquity,
And take us graciously;
Thus we will render  ¹our lips as bulls.

Assyria will not save us;
We will not ride upon horses.
Neither will we say again to the work of our hands, Our God!
Because in You the orphan finds compassion.

 ¹I will heal their apostasy;
I will love them freely;
For My anger has turned away from him.

I will be like the dew to Israel;
He will bud like the  ¹lily
And will send forth his roots like the  ²trees of Lebanon.

His  ¹shoots will go forth;
And his  ²splendor will be like that of the olive tree,
And his  ³fragrance, like that of the trees of Lebanon.

Those who  ¹sit under his shade will return;
They will revive like  ²grain
And will  ³bud like the vine;
His  ⁴renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.

Ephraim says, What have I yet to do with idols?
I respond and look on him.
I am like a  ¹green fir tree;
 ²From Me your fruit is found.

Who is wise?
Then let him understand these things.
Who is intelligent? Then let him know them.
For the ways of Jehovah are right,
And the righteous will walk in them,
But the transgressors will stumble in them.