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^(C1)Do not rejoice, Israel, ^(F1)with jubilation like the ^(F2)nations! For you have ^(C2)been unfaithful, ^(F3)abandoning your God. You have loved the earnings of unfaithfulness on ^(F4)every threshing floor.

Threshing floor and wine press will ^(C1)not feed them, And the new wine will fail ^(F1)them.

They will not remain in ^(C1)the LORD'S land, But Ephraim will return to ^(C2)Egypt, And in ^(C3)Assyria they will eat ^(C4)unclean food.

They will not pour out drink offerings of ^(C1)wine to the LORD, ^(C2)Nor will ^(F1)their sacrifices please Him. Their bread will be to them like ^(F2)mourners' bread; All who eat it will be ^(C3)defiled, Because their bread will be for ^(F3)themselves alone; It will not enter the house of the LORD.

^(C1)What will you do on the day of the appointed festival And on the day of the ^(C2)feast of the LORD?

For behold, they will be gone because of destruction; Egypt will gather them together, ^(C1)Memphis will bury them. Weeds will take possession of their treasures of silver; ^(C2)Thorns will be in their tents.

The days of ^(C1)punishment have come, The days of ^(C2)retribution have come; ^(F1)Let Israel know this! The prophet is a ^(C3)fool, The ^(F2)inspired person is ^(C4)insane, Because of the grossness of your ^(C5)wrongdoing, And because your ^(F3)hostility is so great.

Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet; Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways, And there is only ^(F1)hostility in the house of his God.

They are ^(C1)deeply depraved As in the days of ^(C2)Gibeah; He will ^(C3)remember their guilt, He will punish their sins.

I found Israel like ^(C1)grapes in the wilderness; I saw your forefathers as the ^(C2)earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season. But they came to ^(C3)Baal-peor and devoted themselves to ^(F1)(C4)shame, And they became as ^(C5)detestable as that which they loved.

As for Ephraim, their ^(C1)glory will fly away like a bird— No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!

Though they bring up their children, Yet I will bereave them of their children ^(F1)until not a person is left. Yes, ^(C1)woe to them indeed when I depart from them!

Ephraim, as I have seen, Is planted in a pasture like ^(C1)Tyre; But Ephraim is going to bring out his children for slaughter.

Give to them, LORD—what will You give? Give them a ^(C1)miscarrying womb and dried-up breasts.

All their evil is at ^(C1)Gilgal; Indeed, I came to hate them there! Because of the ^(C2)wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of My house! I will no longer love them; All their leaders are ^(C3)rebels.

^(C1)Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up, They will produce ^(C2)no fruit. Even though they give birth to children, I will put to death the ^(C3)precious ones of their womb.