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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"Don't celebrate, Israel, like other nations would rejoice, because you left your God by committing fornication, loving the profit you gained on all of the threshing floors. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Neither threshing floor nor winepress will sustain them, and the new wine will disappoint her. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3They will not live in the LORD's land— Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They won't present wine offerings to the LORD, nor will they please him. Their sacrifices will seem like food for mourners— everyone who eats them will become unclean; none of them will enter the Temple of the LORD. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"What will you do on the designated holiday, when the LORD's festival comes? |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Look! They have gone away because of the destruction— Egypt will gather them up, and Memphis will bury them. Weeds will overgrow their inheritance, and thorns will grow in their tents. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The time for your judgment has now come; payday is here— and Israel knows it. The prophet is a fool, and the spiritual man is insane. Because of your great sin, the hatred against you is great. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8While Ephraim stands watch with my God, the prophet has snares set that will trap his ways, and hostility lodges in the Temple of his God. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9They have corrupted themselves deeply, as did Gibeah in its day. Therefore God will remember their lawlessness, and he will pay them back for their sins. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"I found Israel, as one finds grapes in the wilderness; Your ancestors seemed to me like the fruit gleaned from a fig tree's first harvest. When they went to Baal-peor, they devoted themselves to that filth, and they became loathsome, like what they loved. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11The glory of Ephraim will fly away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, not even a conception. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Even if they rear their children, I will, in turn, make them childless— in fact, woe to them when I turn away from them! |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Ephraim, as I see it, is like Tyre, planted in a comfortable place; Ephraim will bear children but they will be executed." |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Give them, LORD— What will you give? You will give them a womb that miscarries and dry breasts. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"All of their wickedness started in Gilgal, because I began to hate them there. Because of the wickedness of their behavior, I will drive them from my Temple. I will not love them anymore; all their leaders are rebels. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Ephraim is blighted; its roots shriveled. It can bear no fruit. Even if they bear children, I will kill their cherished offspring. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"My God will reject them, because they did not obey him, and they will become wanderers among the nations." |
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