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| 1 Rejoice not, Israel, exultingly, as the peoples; for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved harlot's hire upon every corn-floor. |
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| 2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her. |
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| 3 They shall not dwell in Jehovah's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and in Assyria shall they eat that which is unclean. |
Ephraim – Christendom. D22[D22]
Return to Egypt – The world. C317; F458; R1681:6
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| 4 They shall pour out no offerings of wine to Jehovah, neither shall their sacrifices be pleasing unto him: they shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be defiled: for their bread shall be for themselves; it shall not come into the house of Jehovah. |
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| 5 What will ye do in the day of assembly, and in the day of the feast of Jehovah? |
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| 6 For behold, they are gone away because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Moph shall bury them: their pleasant things of silver, nettles shall possess them; thorns shall be in their tents. |
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| 7 The days of visitation are come; the days of recompence are come: Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the inspired man is mad, because of the greatness of thine iniquity, and the great enmity. |
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| 8 Is Ephraim a watchman with my God? nay the prophet is a fowler's snare on all his ways, enmity in the house of his God. |
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| 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins. |
They have deeply corrupted – It is not God who has corrupted mankind. R1351:5*
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| 10 I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness; as first-ripe fruit on the fig-tree, I saw your fathers at the beginning: they went to Baal-Peor, and separated themselves unto that shame, and became abominations like their lover. |
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| 11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away as a bird, --no birth, no pregnancy, no conception! |
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| 12 For even should they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that not a man remain: for woe also to them when I shall have departed from them! |
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| 13 Ephraim, as I saw him, was a Tyre planted in a beautiful place; but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the slayer. |
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| 14 Give them, Jehovah--what wilt thou give? --give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. |
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| 15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their doings, I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more: all their princes are rebellious. |
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| 16 Ephraim is smitten: their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit; yea, though they should bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved fruit of their womb. |
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| 17 My God hath rejected them, because they hearkened not unto him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations. |
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