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¹ Rejoice not, O Israel!
    Exult not like the peoples;
^(a)for you have played the whore, forsaking your God.
    ^(b)You have loved a prostitute's wages
    on all threshing floors.
^2 (c)Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them,
    and ^(d)the new wine shall fail them.
³ They shall not remain in ^(e)the land of the Lord,
    but ^(f)Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
    and ^(g)they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

^4 (h)They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the Lord,
    ⁽ⁱ⁾and their sacrifices shall not please him.
It shall be like ^(j)mourners' bread to them;
    all who eat of it shall be defiled;
for their bread shall be for their hunger only;
    ^(k)it shall not come to the house of the Lord.

^5 (l)What will you do on the day of the appointed festival,
    and on the day of the feast of the Lord?
⁶ For behold, they are going away from destruction;
    but ^(m)Egypt shall gather them;
    Memphis shall bury them.
Nettles shall possess ⁽ⁿ⁾their precious things of silver;
    ^(o)thorns shall be in their tents.

^7 (p)The days of punishment have come;
    the days of recompense have come;
    Israel shall know it.
^(q)The prophet is a fool;
    the man of the spirit is mad,
because of your great iniquity
    and great hatred.
⁸ The prophet is ^(r)the watchman of Ephraim with my God;
yet ^(s)a fowler's snare is on all his ways,
    and hatred in the house of his God.
^9 (t)They have deeply corrupted themselves
    as ^(u)in the days of Gibeah:
^(v)he will remember their iniquity;
    he will punish their sins.

¹⁰ Like grapes in the wilderness,
    ^(w)I found Israel.
Like the first fruit on the fig tree
    in its first season,
    I saw your fathers.
But ^(x)they came to Baal-peor
    and ^(y)consecrated themselves to the thing of shame,
    and ^(z)became detestable like the thing they loved.
¹¹ Ephraim's ^(aa)glory shall fly away like a bird—
    ^(ab)no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
^12 (ac)Even if they bring up children,
    I will bereave them till none is left.
^(ad)Woe to them
    when ^(ae)I depart from them!
¹³ Ephraim, ^(af)as I have seen, was like a young palm^[a] planted in a meadow;
    but ^(ag)Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.^[b]
14 Give them, O Lord—
    what will you give?
Give them ^(ah)a miscarrying womb
    and dry breasts.

¹⁵ Every evil of theirs is in ^(ai)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 ^(aj)their princes are ^(ak)rebels.

¹⁶ Ephraim is stricken;
    ^(al)their root is dried up;
    they shall bear no fruit.
Even ^(am)though they give birth,
    ^(an)I will put their beloved children to death.
^17 (ao)My God will reject them
    because they have not listened to him;
    ^(ap)they shall be wanderers among the nations.