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    The Coming Exile
    1Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly as the nations do,9:1 Is 22:12–13; Hs 10:5
    for you have acted promiscuously,9:1 Hs 4:12 leaving your God.
    You love the wages of a prostitute
    on every grain-threshing floor.9:1 Hs 7:14
    2Threshing floor and wine vat will not sustain them,9:2 Hs 2:9
    and the new wine will fail them.
    3They will not stay in the land of the Lord.
    Instead, Ephraim will return to Egypt,9:3 Hs 7:16; 8:13
    and they will eat unclean food9:3 Ezk 4:13 in Assyria.9:3 Hs 11:7
    4They will not pour out
    their wine offerings to the Lord,9:4 Nm 15:5,7,10
    and their sacrifices will not please him.
    Their food will be like the bread of mourners;
    all who eat it become defiled.9:4 Nm 19:11–14; Dt 26:12–14; Jr 16:5–7
    For their bread will be for their appetites alone;
    it will not enter the house of the Lord.
    5What will you do on a festival day,9:5 Is 10:3; Jr 5:31
    on the day of the Lord’s feast?9:5 Hs 2:11; Jl 1:13
    6For even if they flee from devastation,
    Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them.9:6 Is 19:13; Jr 2:16; 44:1; 46:14,19; Ezk 30:13,16
    Thistles will take possession of their precious silver;
    thorns will invade their tents.9:6 Is 5:6; 7:23; Hs 10:8
    7The days of punishment have come;9:7 Is 10:3; Jr 10:15; Mc 7:4
    the days of retribution have come.9:7 Is 34:8; Jr 16:18; 25:14
    Let Israel recognize it!
    The prophet is a fool,9:7 Lm 2:14
    and the inspired man is insane,9:7 Is 44:25
    because of the magnitude
    of your iniquity and hostility.9:7 Ezk 14:9–10
    8Ephraim’s watchman is with my God.
    Yet the prophet encounters a bird trap
    on all his pathways.9:8 Pr 29:5–6; Hs 5:1
    Hostility is in the house of his God!
    9They have deeply corrupted themselves9:9 Is 31:6
    as in the days of Gibeah.9:9 Jdg 19–21; Hs 5:8; 10:9
    He will remember their iniquity;
    he will punish their sins.9:9 Hs 7:2; 8:13
    Ephraim Bereaved of Offspring
    10I discovered Israel
    like grapes in the wilderness.9:10 Mc 7:1
    I saw your ancestors
    like the first fruit of the fig tree in its first season.9:10 Jr 24:2
    But they went to Baal-peor,9:10 Nm 25:1–9
    consecrated themselves to Shame,9:10 = Baal9:10 Jr 11:13; Hs 4:18
    and became abhorrent,9:10 Ezk 20:8
    like the thing they loved.
    11Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird:9:11 Hs 4:7; 10:4
    no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.9:11 Hs 4:10
    12Even if they raise children,
    I will bereave them of each one.
    Yes, woe to them when I depart from them!9:12 Hs 7:13
    13I have seen Ephraim like Tyre,9:13 Ezk 27:3–4
    planted in a meadow,
    so Ephraim will bring out his children
    to the executioner.
    14Give them, Lord —
    What should you give?
    Give them a womb that miscarries
    and breasts that are dry!9:14 Gn 49:25

    15All their evil appears at Gilgal,9:15 Hs 4:15; 12:11
    for there I began to hate them.
    I will drive them from my house
    because of their evil, wicked actions.9:15 Hs 4:9; 7:2; 12:2
    I will no longer love them;
    all their leaders are rebellious.9:15 Hs 5:2
    16Ephraim9:16 Hs 5:11 is struck down;
    their roots are withered;
    they cannot bear fruit.9:16 Hs 8:7
    Even if they bear children,
    I will kill the precious offspring of their wombs.9:16 Ezk 24:21
    17My God will reject them
    because they have not listened to him;9:17 Hs 4:10
    they will become wanderers among the nations.9:17 Hs 7:13

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