1 D o not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations! For you have played the harlot, forsaking your God. You have loved harlots ’ earnings on every threshing floor.

Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.

2 T hreshing floor and wine press will not feed them, And the new wine will fail them.

The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them, and the new wine will fail her.

3 T hey will not remain in the Lord’s land, But Ephraim will return to Egypt, And in Assyria they will eat unclean food.

They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.

4 T hey will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the Lord, Their sacrifices will not please Him. Their bread will be like mourners’ bread; All who eat of it will be defiled, For their bread will be for themselves alone; It will not enter the house of the Lord.

They won’t pour out wine offerings to Yahweh, neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted; for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into Yahweh’s house.

5 W hat will you do on the day of the appointed festival And on the day of the feast of the Lord ?

What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of Yahweh?

6 F or behold, they will go because of destruction; Egypt will gather them up, Memphis will bury them. Weeds will take over their treasures of silver; Thorns will be in their tents.

For, behold, they have gone away from destruction. Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.

7 T he days of punishment have come, The days of retribution have come; Let Israel know this! The prophet is a fool, The inspired man is demented, Because of the grossness of your iniquity, And because your hostility is so great.

The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.

8 E phraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet; Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways, And there is only hostility in the house of his God.

A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.

9 T hey have gone deep in depravity As in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their iniquity, He will punish their sins.

They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins.

10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your forefathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season. But they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame, And they became as detestable as that which they loved.

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.

11 A s for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird— No birth, no pregnancy and no conception!

As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.

12 T hough they bring up their children, Yet I will bereave them until not a man is left. Yes, woe to them indeed when I depart from them!

Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!

13 E phraim, as I have seen, Is planted in a pleasant meadow like Tyre; But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.

I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.

14 G ive them, O Lord —what will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Give them—Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

15 A ll their evil is at Gilgal; Indeed, I came to hate them there! 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.

“All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated 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.

16 E phraim is stricken, their root is dried up, They will bear no fruit. Even though they bear children, I will slay the precious ones of their womb.

Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.”

17 M y God will cast them away Because they have not listened to Him; And they will be wanderers among the nations.

My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.