1 R ejoice not, Israel, exultingly, as the peoples; for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved harlot's hire upon every corn-floor.

`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 T he floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.

Floor and wine-press do not delight them, And new wine doth fail in her,

3 T hey shall not dwell in Jehovah's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and in Assyria shall they eat that which is unclean.

They do not abide in the land of Jehovah, And turned back hath Ephraim Egypt, And in Asshur an unclean thing they eat.

4 T hey shall pour out no wine to Jehovah, neither shall their sacrifices be pleasing unto him: they shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be defiled: for their bread shall be for themselves; it shall not come into the house of Jehovah.

They pour not out wine to Jehovah, Nor are they sweet to Him, Their sacrifices as bread of mourners to them, All eating it are unclean: For their bread for themselves, It doth not come into the house of Jehovah.

5 W hat will ye do in the day of assembly, and in the day of the feast of Jehovah?

What do ye at the day appointed? And at the day of Jehovah's festival?

6 F or behold, they are gone away because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Moph shall bury them: their pleasant things of silver, nettles shall possess them; thorns shall be in their tents.

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 in their tents.

7 T he days of visitation are come; the days of recompence are come: Israel shall know: the prophet is a fool, the inspired man is mad, because of the greatness of thine iniquity, and the great enmity.

Come in have the days of inspection, Come in have the days of recompence, Israel doth know! a fool the prophet, Mad the man of the Spirit, Because of the abundance of thine iniquity, And great the hatred.

8 I s Ephraim a watchman with my God? the prophet is a fowler's snare on all his ways, enmity in the house of his God.

Ephraim is looking from My God, The prophet! a snare of a fowler over all his ways, Hatred in the house of his God.

9 T hey have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

They have gone deep -- have done corruptly, As the days of Gibeah, He doth remember their iniquity, He doth inspect their sins.

10 I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness; as first-ripe fruit on the fig-tree, I saw your fathers at the beginning: they went to Baal-Peor, and separated themselves unto that shame, and became abominations like their lover.

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 Baal-Peor, And are separated to a shameful thing, And are become abominable like their love.

11 A s for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away as a bird,—no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!

Ephraim as a fowl, Fly away doth their honour, without birth, And without womb, and without conception.

12 F or even should they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, not a man: for woe also to them when I shall have departed from them!

For though they nourish their sons, I have made them childless -- without man, Surely also, wo to them, when I turn aside from them.

13 E phraim, as I saw, was a Tyre planted in a beautiful place; but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the slayer.

Ephraim! when I have looked to the rock, Is planted in comeliness, And Ephraim to bring out unto a slayer his sons.

14 G ive them, Jehovah—what wilt thou give?—give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Give to them, Jehovah -- what dost Thou give? Give to them miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.

15 A ll their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their doings, I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more: all their princes are rebellious.

All their evil 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 apostates.

16 E phraim is smitten: their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit; yea, though they should bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved of their womb.

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 M y God hath rejected them, because they hearkened not unto him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

Reject them doth my God, Because they have not hearkened to Him, And they are wanderers among nations!