1Do not rejoice, Israel. Do not exult like the peoples, for you have played the harlot, transgressing against your God. You have loved a harlot's hire upon all the threshing floors of grain.2Threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and new wine will deny her.3They will not dwell in the land of the LORD, and Ephraim will return to Egypt, and in Assyria they will eat unclean things.4They will not pour out wine to the LORD, nor will their sacrifices be pleasing to him. They will be like bread of sorrow to them; all who eat of it will become ritually impure, for their bread for their nephesh will not come to the temple of the LORD.5What will you do on the day of the appointed time, on the day of the Festival of the LORD?6For behold, they have gone from destruction. Egypt will gather them; Memphis will bury them. Their silver—thorns will possess it. Thorns in their tents.7The days of the oversight have come, the days of confirming the word have come; Israel will know: "Fool the prophet, maddening man the spirit, on account of the great iniquity and the abounding enmity."8A watchman of Ephraim is with the God of a prophet; he will snare a trap over all his ways; hostility is in the house of his God.9They have made deep—corrupted like the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity; He will visit their sins.10Like grapes in the wilderness I found Israel, like the firstfruit on the fig tree at its beginning I saw your fathers. They came to Baal of Peor and separated themselves to Shame and became abominations like what they loved.11Ephraim like a bird will flutter away—their glory from birth and from womb and from pregnancy.12For if they make their sons grow, I will bereave them from man. For also woe to them—their ox from them.13Ephraim, as I have seen, is planted like a rock in a pasture, and Ephraim is to bring out to the killing of his sons.14Give to them, LORD—what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and shriveled breasts.15All their evil is in Gilgal—for there I hated them because of the evil of their deeds. From my house I will drive them out; I will love them no more. All their officials are rebels.16Ephraim is struck; his root dries up, fruit—they will not make. Even if they bear children, the dead ones are the delights of their belly.17God will reject them because they did not obey him, and they will be wanderers among the nations.
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Chapter 10
1Israel is a vine emptying itself. Its fruit has become his according to the chief for his fruit. He multiplied altars according to good to his earth. They made good pillars.2Their heart is divided; now they will be guilty—he will break down their altars, he will plunder their pillars.3For now they will say, "We have no king, for we did not fear the LORD. And what can the king do for us?"4They spoke words, false oaths; they cut a covenant and flowered like a head of judgment on furrows of fields.5For the heifers of the house of North the sojourners of Shimron will fear, for his people mourn over him and his priests exult over him over his glory, for it has revealed from him.6Indeed, it will be brought to Assyria as an offering to the king. A controversy will contend in that year; Ephraim will take it, and Israel will be ashamed of his counsel.7Shimron, its king, comes to an end / is cut off like froth on the face of the waters.8And the high places of On, the sin offering of Israel, will be destroyed; thorns and thistles will grow up on their altars, and they will say to the mountains, "Cover us," and to the hills, "Fall on us."9From the days of the sin of Gibeah of Israel. There they stood. War in Gibeah will not overtake them upon the sons of her oppression.10At my coming I will bind them, and peoples will gather against them at binding them for their two iniquities.11Ephraim is a trained heifer that loved to thresh, and I passed over upon the good of her neck. I will ride Ephraim. Judah will plow; Jacob will harrow for himself.12Sow for yourselves in righteousness, reap according to the mouth of steadfast love, plow for yourselves plowing, and a time to seek the LORD until he comes and rains righteousness on you.13You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped injustice, you have eaten the fruit of deception; for you trusted in your way, in the abundance of your mighty men.14Roaring tumult arose among your people, and every fortress of yours will be plundered like the plundering of Shalmaneser at the temple of Arbela on the day of warfare—when she dashed her sons.15In this way he has done to you, house of God, because of the evil of your evil. At dawn the king of Israel is silenced, silenced.