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Ephraim Punished
1 AIs 22:12, 13; Hos 10:5Do not rejoice, O Israel, 1Lit towith exultation like the 2Lit peoplesnations!
For you have BHos 4:12played the harlot, 3Lit away from your Godforsaking your God.
You have loved harlots’ earnings on 4Lit all threshing floors of grainevery threshing floor.
2 Threshing floor and wine press will AHos 2:9not feed them,
And the new wine will fail 1Lit herthem.
3 They will not remain in ALev 25:23; Jer 2:7the Loʀᴅ’s land,
But Ephraim will return to BHos 7:16; 8:13Egypt,
4 They will not pour out drink offerings of AEx 29:40wine to the Loʀᴅ,
BJer 6:20; Hos 8:13Their sacrifices will not please Him.
All who eat of it will be CHag 2:13, 14defiled,
For their bread will be for 3Lit their appetitethemselves alone;
It will not enter the house of the Loʀᴅ.
5 AIs 10:3; Jer 5:31What will you do on the day of the appointed festival
And on the day of the BHos 2:11; Joel 1:13feast of the Loʀᴅ?
6 For behold, they will go because of destruction;
Egypt will gather them up, AIs 19:13; Jer 2:16; 44:1; 46:14, 19; Ezek 30:13, 16Memphis will bury them.
Weeds will take over their treasures of silver;
BIs 5:6; 7:23; Hos 10:8Thorns will be in their tents.
7 The days of AIs 10:3; Jer 10:15; Mic 7:4; Luke 21:22punishment have come,
The days of BIs 34:8; Jer 16:18; 25:14retribution have come;
1Or Israel will know itLet Israel know this!
The prophet is a CLam 2:14; Ezek 13:3, 10fool,
The 2Lit man of the spiritinspired man is DIs 44:25demented,
Because of the grossness of your EEzek 14:9, 10iniquity,
And because your hostility is so great.
8 Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet;
Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways,
And there is only hostility in the house of his God.
As in the days of BJudg 19:12, 16-30; Hos 10:9Gibeah;
He will CHos 7:2; 8:13remember their iniquity,
He will punish their sins.
10 I found Israel like AMic 7:1grapes in the wilderness;
I saw your forefathers as the BJer 24:2earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season.
But they came to CNum 25:1-5; Ps 106:28, 29Baal-peor and devoted themselves to 1I.e. BaalDJer 11:13; Hos 4:18shame,
And they became as EPs 115:8; Ezek 20:8detestable as that which they loved.
11 As for Ephraim, their AHos 4:7; 10:5glory will fly away like a bird—
No birth, no pregnancy and no conception!
12 Though they bring up their children,
Yet I will bereave them 1Lit without a manuntil not a man is left.
Yes, ADeut 31:17; Hos 7:13woe to them indeed when I depart from them!
13 Ephraim, as I have seen,
Is planted in a pleasant meadow like AEzek 26:1-21Tyre;
But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.
14 Give them, O Loʀᴅ—what will You give?
Give them a AHos 9:11miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
15 All their evil is at AHos 4:15; 12:11Gilgal;
Indeed, I came to hate them there!
Because of the BHos 4:9; 7:2; 12:2wickedness of their deeds
I will drive them out of My house!
I will love them no more;
All their princes are CIs 1:23; Hos 5:2rebels.
16 AHos 5:11Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up,
They will bear BHos 8:7no fruit.
Even though they bear children,
I will slay the CEzek 24:21precious ones of their womb.
17 My God will cast them away
Because they have AHos 4:10not listened to Him;
And they will be BHos 7:13wanderers among the nations.
19:1 Lit to
29:1 Lit peoples
39:1 Lit away from your God
49:1 Lit all threshing floors of grain
19:2 Lit her
19:4 Lit be to them
29:4 Or bread of misfortune
39:4 Lit their appetite
A9:6 Is 19:13; Jer 2:16; 44:1; 46:14, 19; Ezek 30:13, 16
A9:7 Is 10:3; Jer 10:15; Mic 7:4; Luke 21:22
B9:7 Is 34:8; Jer 16:18; 25:14
19:7 Or Israel will know it
C9:7 Lam 2:14; Ezek 13:3, 10
29:7 Lit man of the spirit
E9:7 Ezek 14:9, 10
19:9 Lit they have corrupted
B9:9 Judg 19:12, 16-30; Hos 10:9
C9:10 Num 25:1-5; Ps 106:28, 29
19:10 I.e. Baal
19:12 Lit without a man