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9:1 Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations! For you have played the harlot, forsaking your God. You have loved [harlots]' earnings on every threshing floor. 9:2 Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them, And the new wine will fail them. 9:3 They will not remain in the LORD's land, But Ephraim will return to Egypt, And in Assyria they will eat unclean [food]. 9:4 They will not pour out libations of wine to the LORD, Their sacrifices will not please Him. [Their bread will] [be] like mourners' bread; All who eat of it will be defiled, For their bread will be for themselves [alone]; It will not enter the house of the LORD. 9:5 What will you do on the day of the appointed festival And on the day of the feast of the LORD? 9:6 For behold, they will go because of destruction; Egypt will gather them up, Memphis will bury them. Weeds will take over their treasures of silver; Thorns [will be] in their tents. 9:7 The days of punishment have come, The days of retribution have come; Let Israel know [this]! The prophet is a fool, The inspired man is demented, Because of the grossness of your iniquity, And [because] your hostility is [so] great. 9:8 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. 9:9 They have gone deep in depravity As in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their iniquity, He will punish their sins. 9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your forefathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first [season]. [But] they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame, And they became as detestable as that which they loved. 9:11 As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird-- No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception! 9:12 Though they bring up their children, Yet I will bereave them until not a man is left. Yes, woe to them indeed when I depart from them! 9:13 Ephraim, as I have seen, Is planted in a pleasant meadow like Tyre; But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter. 9:14 Give them, O LORD-- what wilt Thou give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. 9:15 All their evil is at Gilgal; Indeed, I came to hate them there! 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. 9:16 Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up, They will bear no fruit. Even though they bear children, I will slay the precious ones of their womb. 9:17 My God will cast them away Because they have not listened to Him; And they will be wanderers among the nations.