for you were unfaithful to your God.

You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.

and the new wine will fail her.

but Ephraim will return to Egypt,

and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.

neither will they be pleasing to him.

Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;

all who eat of it will be polluted;

for their bread will be for their appetite.

It will not come into Yahweh’s house.

and in the day of the feast of Yahweh?

Egypt will gather them up.

Memphis will bury them.

Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver.

Thorns will be in their tents.

The days of reckoning have come.

Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool,

and the man who is inspired to be insane,

because of the abundance of your sins,

and because your hostility is great.

A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths,

and hostility in the house of his God.

as in the days of Gibeah.

He will remember their iniquity.

He will punish them for their sins.

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.

There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.

yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left.

Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!

but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.

Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

for there I hated them.

Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house!

I will love them no more.

All their princes are rebels.

Their root has dried up.

They will bear no fruit.

Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.”

and they will be wanderers among the nations.