1. Don’t rejoice, Israel!Don’t celebrate as other nations do;for as whores you have gone away from your God.You have loved a prostitute’s payon all threshing floors of grain.
2. Threshing floor and wine vat won’t feed them;the new wine will fail them.
3. They won’t remain in the land of the Lord;but Ephraim will return to Egypt,and in Assyria they will eat unclean food.
4. They won’t pour wine as an offering to the Lord;their sacrifices won’t please him.Such sacrifices will be like food for those who touch the dead;all who eat of it will be unclean;their bread will be for their hunger alone;it will not come to the Lord’s house.
5. What will you do on the day of appointed festival,on the day of the Lord’s festival?
6. Even if they escape destruction,Egypt will gather them,Memphis will bury them.Briars will possess their precious things of silver;thorns will be in their tents.
7. The days of punishment have come;the days of judgment have arrived;Israel cries,"The prophet is a fool,the spiritual man is mad!"Because of your great wickedness,your rejection of me is great.