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1. REjoyce not, O Isra∣el, for joy as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every corn floor.
2 The floor and the wine∣presse shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
3 They shall not dwell in the Lords land: but E∣phraim shall return to E∣gypt, and they shall eat un∣clean things in Assyria.
4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord; neither shall they be plea∣sing
unto him: their sacri∣fices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners: all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the Lord.
5 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of thè Lord.
6 For lo, they are gone because of destruction: E∣gypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possesse them: thornes shall be in their tabernacles.
7 The dayes of visitati∣on are come, the dayes of recompense are come, Isra∣el shall know it; the Pro∣phet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multi∣tude of thine iniquity and the great hatred.
8 The watchman of E∣phraim was with my God: but the Prophet is a snare of a sowler in all his waies and hatred in the house of his God.
9 They have deeply cor∣rupted themselves, as in the dayes of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their ini∣quity, he will visit their sins.
10 I found Israel like grapes in the wildernesse: I saw your Fathers as the first ripe in the fig-tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-Peor, and separated themselves unto that shame, and their abominations were according as they loved.
11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall flee away like a bird: from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea wo also to them when I de∣part from them.
13 Ephraim, as I saw Ty∣rus, is planted in a plea∣sant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his chil∣dren to the murderer.
14 Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.
15 All their wickednesse is in Gilgal: for there I hated them; for the wick∣ednesse of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their Princes are revolters.
16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.
17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the na∣tions.