9 Don’t celebrate Israel, with joy like the peoples.

because you’ve prostituted yourself—forsaking your God.

≈You’ve loved the wages of a sex-worker on all the threshing floors.

2 The grain threshing floor and the winepress won’t provide enough

≈and the grape harvest will fail them.

3 The people won’t remain on Yahweh’s land,

instead, Efraim/Yisrael will return to Egypt,

≈and they’ll eat non-kosher food in Assyria.

4 They won’t pour out wine offerings to Yahweh,

≈and their sacrifices won’t please him.

To them, it’ll be like the food at a funeral—

everyone who eats it will become defiled.

Their food will only be for themselves to eat—

it won’t be allowed into Yahweh’s residence.

5 So what will you do on the day of an scheduled celebration,

and on the day of a festival for Yahweh?

6 Listen, even if they avoid destruction,

Egypt will gather them.

≈Mof (Memphis) city will bury them.

Nettles will possess their valuable silver.

≈Thornbushes will be in their tents.

7 The days of punishment have come.

≈The days of retribution have come.

Let Yisrael know these things.

The prophet is a fool,

≈the man of the spirit is insane,

because of the extent of your disobedience

≈and your intense hostility.[ref]

8 The prophet is the watchman over Efraim/Yisrael with my God,

but the bird-catcher’s traps are on all of his paths,

and there’s hostility in his God’s house.

9 They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the time of Gibeah.

He will remember their iniquity,

≈He will punish their sins.[ref]