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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Rejoice not, O Israel! Exult not like the peoples; for you have played the whore, forsaking your God. You have loved a prostitute’s wages on all threshing floors. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3They shall not remain in the land of the LORD, but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the LORD, and their sacrifices shall not please him. It shall be like mourners’ bread to them; all who eat of it shall be defiled; for their bread shall be for their hunger only; it shall not come to the house of the LORD. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5What will you do on the day of the appointed festival, and on the day of the feast of the LORD? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For behold, they are going away from destruction; but Egypt shall gather them; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver; thorns shall be in their tents. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool; the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The prophet is the watchman of Ephraim with my God; yet a fowler’s snare is on all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your fathers. But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame, and became detestable like the thing they loved. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Ephraim’s glory shall fly away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, no conception! |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them! |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Ephraim, as I have seen, was like a young palm planted in a meadow; but Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Give them, O LORD— what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal; there I began to hate 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, I will put their beloved children to death. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations. |
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