for you were unfaithful to your God.
    You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
² The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them,
    and the new wine will fail her.
³ They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land;
    but Ephraim will return to Egypt,
    and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
⁴ They won’t pour out wine offerings to Yahweh,
    neither will they be pleasing to him.
    Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;
    all who eat of it will be polluted;
    for their bread will be for their appetite.
    It will not come into Yahweh’s house.
⁵ What will you do in the day of solemn assembly,
    and in the day of the feast of Yahweh?
⁶ For, behold, when they flee destruction,
    Egypt will gather them up.
    Memphis will bury them.
    Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver.
    Thorns will be in their tents.
⁷ The days of visitation have come.
    The days of reckoning have come.
Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool,
    and the man who is inspired to be insane,
    because of the abundance of your sins,
    and because your hostility is great.
⁸ A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God.
    A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths,
    and hostility in the house of his God.
⁹ They have deeply corrupted themselves,
    as in the days of Gibeah.
    He will remember their iniquity.
    He will punish them for their sins.
¹⁰ I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness.
    I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season;
    but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing,
    and became abominable like that which they loved.
¹¹ As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird.
    There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.
¹² Though they bring up their children,
    yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left.
    Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!
¹³ I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place;
    but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.
¹⁴ Give them—Yahweh what will you give?
    Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

¹⁵ “All their wickedness is in Gilgal;
    for there I hated 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 Ephraim is struck.
    Their root has dried up.
    They will bear no fruit.
    Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.”

¹⁷ My God will cast them away, because they didn’t listen to him;
    and they will be wanderers among the nations.