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9 No exultations, Israel,
no pagan shouts for you!
You have been faithless to your God;
you have loved a harlot’s hire
at every threshing-floor.
2 But threshing-floor and wine-vat fail you,
and the new wine shall disappoint you.
3 Back to Egypt Ephraim goes again,
and in Assyria they eat food unclean
(for in the Eternal’s land they shall not stay).
4 No libations to the Eternal then!
No sacrificing victims for him then!
Their food shall be like mourners’ food,
defiling all who eat it;
their food shall only be for their own table,
none can be offered in the Eternal’s house.
5 What will you do on a festival day,
on a day of the Eternal’s feast?
6 You will have gone to Assyria,
gathered in Egypt,
mustered at Memphis–
nettles covering the rare silver idols,
thorns springing in your shrines.
7 The days of punishment have come,
the days of requital.
Israel clamours,
“A prophet is a crazy fool,
a man inspired is a man insane!”–
such is the pitch of your iniquity,
the pitch of your hostility.
8 The prophet is God’s watchman,
placed over Ephraim,
and yet his paths are snared;
within the temple of his God
men are hostile to him!–
9 a depth of depravity as deep
as in the days of Gibeah.
God will remember their guilt
and punish their sin.
10 Like grapes in the wold I came on Israel;
like first-ripe figs, I viewed your fathers gladly.
But when they came to Baal-pĕor,
they devoted themselves to Baal the Infamous,
became as loathsome as the thing they loved.
11 Ephraim’s glory, ’tis gone like a bird–
no births, no mothers, no conception, any more!
Even though they beget children,
I will slay the darlings of their womb;
12 even although they bring up sons,
I will bereave them, to a man.
13 Ephraim’s sons are doomed to be a prey;
Ephraim has to lead his sons to die.
14 Give them, O Eternal – what?
wombs that miscarry,
withered breasts!
15 Their guilt lies all at Gilgal;
so there I learned to hate them!
For their evil practices
I drive them from my house;
no longer will I love them–
their rulers are all rebels.
12c Woe betide them when I look away from them!
16 Ephraim is blighted,
withered at the root;
Ephraim the Fruitful bears no fruit.
17 Their God shall cast them off,
for they would not obey him;
they shall be vagabonds among the nations.