1
Do not rejoice, Yisra’el, with exultation like the peoples, for you have prostituted yourself from your Elohim. You have loved the wages of prostitution upon every threshing floor of grain.
2
Threshing floor and winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.
3
They shall not dwell in the land of Yahuah. But Efrayim shall return to Mitzrayim, and in Ashshur they shall eat what is unclean.
4
They shall not pour out wine to Yahuah, and their sacrifices shall not please Him. Their bread shall be to them like the bread of mourning. All who eat it shall become unclean. For their bread shall be for their own being; it shall not come into the House of Yahuah.
5
What will you do on the day of the appointed time, and on the day of the feast of Yahuah?
6
For see, they have gone because of destruction. Mitzrayim shall gather them; Memphis shall bury them. As for their precious things of silver, nettles shall possess them. Thorns shall be in their tents.
7
The days of visitation have come. The days of repayment have come. Yisra’el shall know it. The prophet is a fool; the ish of ruach is mad— because of the greatness of your crookedness, and the greatness of the hostility.
8
The watchman of Efrayim is with my Elohim, yet the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hostility is in the House of his Elohim.
9
They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Givah. He will remember their crookedness. He will visit their sins.
10
Like grapes in the wilderness I found Yisra’el. Like the firstfruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your fathers. But they came to Ba’al-Pe’or and separated themselves to shame. And they became abominations like the thing they loved.
11
As for Efrayim, their glory shall fly away like a bird— from birth, and from womb, and from conception.
12
Though they raise their sons, I will bereave them until not an Adam remains. Yes, woe to them when I turn away from them.
13
Efrayim, as I saw him, was planted in a pleasant place like Tzor. But Efrayim shall bring out his sons to the slayer.
14
Give them, Yahuah— what will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
15
All their evil is in Gilgal, for there I hated them. Because of the evil of their deeds I will drive them from My House. I will love them no more. All their rulers are rebellious.
16
Efrayim is struck. Their root is dried up. They shall bear no fruit. Even if they bear children, I will put to death the beloved fruit of their womb.
17
My Elohim will reject them because they did not hear Him, and they shall become wanderers among the nations.