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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly as the nations do, for you have acted promiscuously, leaving your God. You have loved the wages of a prostitute on every grain-threshing floor. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Threshing floor and wine vat will not sustain them, and the new wine will fail them. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3They will not stay in the land of the LORD. Instead, Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They will not pour out their wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him. Their food will be like the bread of mourners; all who eat it become defiled. For their bread will be for their appetites alone; it will not enter the house of the LORD. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5What will you do on a festival day, on the day of the LORD's feast? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For even if they flee from devastation, Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them. Thistles will take possession of their precious silver; thorns will invade their tents. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have come. Let Israel recognize it! The prophet is a fool, and the inspired man is insane, because of the magnitude of your guilt and hostility. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Ephraim's watchman is with my God. The prophet encounters a fowler's snare on all his ways. Hostility is 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 guilt; He will punish their sins. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10I discovered Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers like the first fruit of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, consecrated themselves to Shame, and became detestable, like the thing they loved. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Ephraim's glory will fly away like a bird: no birth, no gestation, no conception. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Even if they raise children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe to them when I depart from them! |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I have seen Ephraim like Tyre, planted in a meadow, so Ephraim will bring out his children to the executioner. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Give them, LORD-- What should You give? Give them a womb that miscarries and breasts that are dry! |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I came to hate them. I will drive them from My house because of their evil, wicked actions. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Ephraim is struck down; their roots are withered; they cannot bear fruit. Even if they bear children, I will kill the precious offspring of their wombs. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17My God will reject them because they have not listened to Him; they will become wanderers among the nations. |
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