1 Days of Punishment Have Come Do not be glad, O Israel, 9:1Lit to with rejoicing like the peoples!For you have played the harlot, 9:1Lit away from your God forsaking your God.You have lovedharlots’earnings on 9:1Lit all threshing floors of grain every threshing floor.
2 Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them,And the new wine will deceive 9:2 Lit her them.
3 They will not remain in the land of Yahweh,But Ephraim will return to Egypt,And in Assyria they will eat uncleanfood.
4 They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to Yahweh;Their sacrifices will not please Him.Their bread will 9:4Lit be to them belike 9:4Or bread of misfortune mourners’ bread;All who eat of it will be defiled,For their bread will be for 9:4Lit their appetite themselvesalone;It will not enter the house of Yahweh.
5 What will you do on the day of the appointed festivalAnd on the day of the feast of Yahweh?
6 For behold, they will go because of destruction;Egypt will gather them up; Memphis will bury them.Weeds will possess their desirable items of silver;Thornswill bein their tents.
7 ¶The days of punishment have come;The days of recompense have come; 9:7 Or Israel will know it Let Israel knowthis!The prophet is an ignorant fool,The 9:7 Lit man of the spirit inspired man has madness,Because of the abundance of your iniquityAndbecauseyour hostility has abounded.
8 Ephraimwasa watchman with my God, a prophet;Yetthe snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways,Andthere isonlyhostility in the house of his God.
9 They have dug deep 9:9 Lit they have corrupted in corruptionAs in the days of Gibeah;He will remember their iniquity;He will punish their sins.Grapes in the Wilderness
10 ¶I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness;I saw your fathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its firstseason.Butthey came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to 9:10Baal shame,And they became as detestable as that which they loved.
11 As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird—No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!
12 Though they bring up their children,Yet I will bereave them 9:12Lit without a man until not a man is left.Surely, woe to them indeed when I depart from them!
13 Ephraim, as I have seen,Is planted in a pasture like Tyre;But Ephraim will bring out his children for killing.
14 Give them, O Yahweh—what will You give?Give them a 9:14Lit bereaving miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
15 ¶All their evil is at Gilgal;Indeed, I came to hate them there!Because of the evil of their deedsI will drive them out of My house!I will love them no more;All their princes are rebels.
16 Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up;They will bear no fruit.Even though they bear children,I will put to death the desirable ones of their womb.
17 My God will despise themBecause they have not listened to Him;And they will be those who flee among the nations.