Ephraim Punished
aDo not rejoice, Israel, 1with jubilation like the 2nations!For you have bbeen unfaithful, 3abandoning your God.You have loved the earnings of unfaithfulness on 4every threshing floor.Lit toLit peoplesLit away from your GodLit all threshing floors of grainIs 22:12, 13; Hos 10:5Hos 4:122 Threshing floor and wine press will anot feed them,And the new wine will fail 1them.Lit herHos 2:93 They will not remain in athe LORD’S land,But Ephraim will return to bEgypt,And in cAssyria they will eat dunclean food.Lev 25:23; Jer 2:7Hos 7:16; 8:13Hos 7:11Ezek 4:134 They will not pour out drink offerings of awine to the LORD,bNor will 1their sacrifices please Him.Their bread will be to them like 2mourners’ bread;All who eat it will be cdefiled,Because their bread will be for 3themselves alone;It will not enter the house of the LORD.Or they offer to Him theirLit bread of mourningLit their soulEx 29:40Jer 6:20; Hos 8:13Hag 2:13, 145 aWhat will you do on the day of the appointed festivalAnd on the day of the bfeast of the LORD?Is 10:3; Jer 5:31Hos 2:11; Joel 1:136 For behold, they will be gone because of destruction;Egypt will gather them together, aMemphis will bury them.Weeds will take possession of their treasures of silver;bThorns will be in their tents.Is 19:13; Jer 2:16; 44:1; 46:14, 19; Ezek 30:13, 16Is 5:6; 7:23; Hos 10:8
7 The days of apunishment have come,The days of bretribution have come;1Let Israel know this!The prophet is a cfool,The 2inspired person is dinsane,Because of the grossness of your ewrongdoing,And because your 3hostility is so great.Or Israel will know thisLit man of the spiritOr persecutionIs 10:3; Jer 10:15; Mic 7:4; Luke 21:22Is 34:8; Jer 16:18; 25:14Lam 2:14; Ezek 13:3, 10Is 44:25Ezek 14:9, 108 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 1hostility in the house of his God.Or persecution9 They are adeeply depravedAs in the days of bGibeah;He will cremember their guilt,He will punish their sins.Is 31:6Judg 19:12, 16-30; Hos 10:9Hos 7:2; 8:13
10 I found Israel like agrapes in the wilderness;I saw your forefathers as the bearliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season.But they came to cBaal-peor and devoted themselves to 1dshame,And they became as edetestable as that which they loved.I.e., BaalMic 7:1Jer 24:2Num 25:1-5; Ps 106:28, 29Jer 11:13; Hos 4:18Ps 115:8; Ezek 20:811 As for Ephraim, their aglory will fly away like a bird—No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!Hos 4:7; 10:512 Though they bring up their children,Yet I will bereave them of their children 1until not a person is left.Yes, awoe to them indeed when I depart from them!Lit without a personDeut 31:17; Hos 7:1313 Ephraim, as I have seen,Is planted in a pasture like aTyre;But Ephraim is going to bring out his children for slaughter.Ezek 26:1-2114 Give to them, LORD—what will You give?Give them a amiscarrying womb and dried-up breasts.Hos 9:11
15 All their evil is at aGilgal;Indeed, I came to hate them there!Because of the bwickedness of their deedsI will drive them out of My house!I will no longer love them;All their leaders are crebels.Hos 4:15; 12:11Hos 4:9; 7:2; 12:2Is 1:23; Hos 5:216 aEphraim is stricken, their root is dried up,They will produce bno fruit.Even though they give birth to children,I will put to death the cprecious ones of their womb.Hos 5:11Hos 8:7Ezek 24:2117 My God will reject themBecause they have anot listened to Him;And they will be bwanderers among the nations.Hos 4:10Hos 7:13