1 - `Rejoice not, O Israel, be not joyful like the peoples, For thou hast gone a-whoring from thy God, Thou hast loved a gift near all floors of corn.
2 - Floor and wine-press do not delight them, And new wine doth fail in her,
3 - They do not abide in the land of Jehovah, And turned back hath Ephraim <FI>to<Fi> Egypt, And in Asshur an unclean thing they eat.
4 - They pour not out wine to Jehovah, Nor are they sweet to Him, Their sacrifices <FI>are<Fi> as bread of mourners to them, All eating it are unclean: For their bread <FI>is<Fi> for themselves, It doth not come into the house of Jehovah.
5 - What do ye at the day appointed? And at the day of Jehovah's festival?
6 - For, lo, they have gone because of destruction, Egypt gathereth them, Moph burieth them, The desirable things of their silver, Nettles possess them--a thorn <FI>is<Fi> in their tents.
7 - Come in have the days of inspection, Come in have the days of recompence, Israel doth know! a fool <FI>is<Fi> the prophet, Mad <FI>is<Fi> the man of the Spirit, Because of the abundance of thine iniquity, And great <FI>is<Fi> the hatred.
8 - Ephraim is looking <FI>away<Fi> from My God, The prophet! a snare of a fowler <FI>is<Fi> over all his ways, Hatred <FI>is<Fi> in the house of his God.
9 - They have gone deep--have done corruptly, As <FI>in<Fi> the days of Gibeah, He doth remember their iniquity, He doth inspect their sins.
10 - As grapes in a wilderness I found Israel, As the first-fruit in a fig-tree, at its beginning, I have seen your fathers, They--they have gone in <FI>to<Fi> Baal-Peor, And are separated to a shameful thing, And are become abominable like their love.
11 - Ephraim <FI>is<Fi> as a fowl, Fly away doth their honour, without birth, And without womb, and without conception.
12 - For though they nourish their sons, I have made them childless--without man, Surely also, woe to them, when I turn aside from them.
13 - Ephraim! when I have looked to the rock, Is planted in comeliness, And Ephraim <FI>is<Fi> to bring out unto a slayer his sons.
14 - Give to them, Jehovah--what dost Thou give? Give to them miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.
15 - All their evil <FI>is<Fi> in Gilgal, Surely there I have hated them, Because of the evil of their doings, Out of My house I do drive them, I add not to love them, all their heads <FI>are<Fi> apostates.
16 - Ephraim hath been smitten, Their root hath dried up, fruit they yield not, Yea, though they bring forth, I have put to death the desired of their womb.
17 - Reject them doth my God, Because they have not hearkened to Him, And they are wanderers among nations!
