1Rejoice not, O Israel, as the nations do! For you have played the whore, forsaking your God. You have loved a harlot's wages on all threshing floors.2Threshing floor and winepress shall not feed them; the new wine shall fail them.3They shall not remain in the land of the LORD, but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and in Assyria they shall eat unclean food.4They shall not pour out drink offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices shall not be pleasing to him. Their bread 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 into the house of the LORD.5What will you do on the day of appointed festival, or on the day of the feast of the LORD?6For behold, they are going away because of destruction; Egypt shall gather them; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver; thorns shall be in their tents.7The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool; the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred.8The watchman of Ephraim was with my God, yet a fowler's snare is on all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.9They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; he will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins.10Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree, in its beginning, I saw your fathers. But they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to the thing of shame, and became detestable like the thing they loved.11Ephraim's glory shall fly away like a bird—no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!12Though they bring up their children, I will bereave them till no one is left. Woe to them indeed when I depart from them!13Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, was planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim must lead out his children to the slayer.14Give them, O LORD—what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.15Every evil of theirs is in 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 their princes are rebels.16Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, I will put their beloved children to death.17My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations.