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1 Rejoice not, O Yisroel,
for joy, as other people;
for thou hast gone a-whoring from thy G-d,
thou hast loved for hire upon every threshing floor.
2 The floor and the wine-press shall not feed them,
and the tirosh shall fail in her.
3 They shall not dwell in Hashemʼs land;
but Ephrayim shall return to Mitzrayim,
and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
4 They shall not offer yayin offerings to Hashem,
neither shall they be pleasing unto Him;
their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners;
all that eat thereof shall be polluted;
for their bread shall be for their own nefesh
and shall not come into the Beis Hashem.
5 What will ye do in the Yom Mo'ed,
and in the Yom Chag Hashem?
6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction;
Mitzrayim shall gather them up,
Memphis shall bury them;
nettles shall possess their valuables of kesef;
thorns shall be in their tents.
7 The days of pekudah (visitation for divine punishment) are come,
the yamim of recompence are come;
Yisroel shall know it.
The navi is a fool,
the ish haruach (spiritual man) is meshuga,
for the multitude of thine iniquity
and great hatred.
8 The watchman of Ephrayim was with my G-d;
but the navi is a snare of a fowler in all his ways,
and hatred in the bais of his G-d.
9 They have deeply corrupted themselves,
as in the yamim of Giv'ah;
therefore He will remember their iniquity,
He will visit their sins.
10 I found Yisroel like grapes in the midbar;
I saw your avot as the bikkurah
in the fig tree at her first season;
but they went to Ba'al-Pe'or,
and separated themselves unto that shame;
and their abominations were according as they loved.
11 As for Ephrayim, their kavod shall fly away like a bird,
from the birth, and from the beten (womb), and from the conception.
12 Though they bring up their banim,
yet will I bereave them,
that there shall not be a man left:
yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
13 Ephrayim, as I saw Tzor,
is planted in a pleasant place;
but Ephrayim shall bring forth
his banim to the murderer.
14 Give them, O Hashem. What wilt Thou give?
Give them a miscarrying rechem (womb) and dry breasts.
15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal;
for there I hated them;
for the wickedness of their doings
I will drive them out of Mine bais,
I will love them no more;
all their sarim (princes) are sorerim (rebels).
16 Ephrayim is struck,
their shoresh (root) is dried up,
they shall bear no fruit;
yea, though they bring forth,
yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their beten (womb).
17 My G-d will cast them away,
because they did not pay heed unto Him;
and they shall be nodedim (wanderers) among the Goyim.