| Chapter 9 |
1 |
Don`t rejoice, Israel, for joy, like the peoples; for you have played the prostitute, departing from your God; you have loved hire on every grain-floor. |
2 |
The threshing floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her. |
3 |
They shall not dwell in Yahweh`s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria. |
4 |
They shall not pour out wine-offerings to Yahweh, neither shall they be pleasing to him: their sacrifices shall be to them as the bread of mourners; all who eat of it shall be polluted; for their bread shall be for their appetite; it shall not come into the house of Yahweh. |
5 |
What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of Yahweh? |
6 |
For, behold, they have gone away from destruction; yet Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them; their pleasant things of silver, nettles shall possess them; thorns shall be in their tents. |
7 |
The days of visitation have come, the days of recompense have come. Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the man who has the spirit is mad, for the abundance of your iniquity, and because the enmity is great. |
8 |
Ephraim was a watchman with my God: as for the prophet, a fowler`s snare is in all his ways, and enmity 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 visit 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 shall fly away like a bird: there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception. |
12 |
Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, so that not a man shall be left: yes, woe also to them when I depart from them! |
13 |
Ephraim, like as I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring out his children to the killer. |
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 doings 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 is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yes, though they bring forth, yet will I kill the beloved fruit of their womb. |
17 |
My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations. |
