微读圣经

The Coming Exile

1Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly as the nations do, Is 22:12-13; Hs 10:5

for you have acted promiscuously, Hs 4:12 leaving your God.

You have loved the wages of a prostitute

on every grain-threshing floor. Hs 7:14

2Threshing floor and wine vat will not sustain them, Hs 2:9

and the new wine will fail them.

3They will not stay in the land of the Lord.

Instead, Ephraim will return to Egypt, Hs 7:16; 8:13

and they will eat unclean food Ezk 4:13 in Assyria. Hs 11:7

4They will not pour out

their wine offerings to the Lord, Nm 15:5,7,10

and their sacrifices will not please Him.

Their food will be like the bread of mourners;

all who eat it become defiled. Nm 19:11-14; Dt 26:12-14; Jr 16:5-7

For their bread will be for their appetites alone;

it will not enter the house of the Lord.

5What will you do on a festival day, Is 10:3; Jr 5:31

on the day of the Lord’s feast? Hs 2:11; Jl 1:13

6For even if they flee from devastation,

Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them. Is 19:13; Jr 2:16; 44:1; 46:14,19; Ezk 30:13,16

Thistles will take possession of their precious silver;

thorns will invade their tents. Is 5:6; 7:23; Hs 10:8

7The days of punishment have come; Is 10:3; Jr 10:15; Mc 7:4

the days of retribution have come. Is 34:8; Jr 16:18; 25:14

Let Israel recognize it!

The prophet is a fool, Lm 2:14

and the inspired man is insane, Is 44:25

because of the magnitude

of your guilt and hostility. Ezk 14:9-10

8Ephraim’s watchman is with my God.

The prophet encounters a fowler’s snare

on all his ways. Pr 29:5-6; Hs 5:1

Hostility is in the house of his God!

9They have deeply corrupted themselves Is 31:6

as in the days of Gibeah. Jdg 19–21; Hs 5:8; 10:9

He will remember their guilt;

He will punish their sins. Hs 7:2; 8:13

Ephraim Bereaved of Offspring

10I discovered Israel

like grapes in the wilderness. Mc 7:1

I saw your fathers

like the first fruit of the fig tree in its first season. Jr 24:2

But they went to Baal-peor, Nm 25:1-9

consecrated themselves to Shame, = Baal Jr 11:13; Hs 4:18

and became detestable, Ezk 20:8

like the thing they loved.

11Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird: Hs 4:7; 10:4

no birth, no gestation, no conception. Hs 4:10

12Even if they raise children,

I will bereave them of each one.

Yes, woe to them when I depart from them! Hs 7:13

13I have seen Ephraim like Tyre, Ezk 27:3-4

planted in a meadow,

so Ephraim will bring out his children

to the executioner.

14Give them, Lord —

What should You give?

Give them a womb that miscarries

and breasts that are dry! Gn 49:25

15All their evil appears at Gilgal, Hs 4:15; 12:11

for there I came to hate them.

I will drive them from My house

because of their evil, wicked actions. Hs 4:9; 7:2; 12:2

I will no longer love them;

all their leaders are rebellious. Hs 5:2

16Ephraim Hs 5:11 is struck down;

their roots are withered;

they cannot bear fruit. Hs 8:7

Even if they bear children,

I will kill the precious offspring of their wombs. Ezk 24:21

17My God will reject them

because they have not listened to Him; Hs 4:10

they will become wanderers among the nations. Hs 7:13