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.

Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.

2 F loor and wine-press do not delight them, And new wine doth fail in her,

The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.

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

They shall not dwell in the Lord 's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

4 T hey 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.

They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices 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 W hat do ye at the day appointed? And at the day of Jehovah's festival?

What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the Lord ?

6 F or, 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.

For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.

7 C ome 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.

The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

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

The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

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

They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

10 A s 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.

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

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

As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

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

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

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

Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.

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

Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

15 A ll 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.

All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.

16 E phraim 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.

Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.

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

My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.