2 Threshing floor and wine press will not nourish them,the new wine will fail them.
3 They will not dwell in the Lord’s land;Ephraim will return to Egypt,and in Assyria they will eat unclean food.
4 They will not pour libations of wine to the Lord,and their sacrifices will not please him.Their bread will be like mourners’ bread, that makes unclean all who eat of it;Their food will be for their own appetites;it cannot enter the house of the Lord.
5 What will you do on the festival day,the day of the Lord’s feast?
6 When they flee from the devastation,Egypt will gather them, Memphis will bury them.Weeds will overgrow their silver treasures,and thorns, their tents.
7 They have come, the days of punishment!they have come, the days of recompense!Let Israel know it!“The prophet is a fool,the man of the spirit is mad!”Because your iniquity is great,great, too, is your hostility.
8 The watchman of Ephraim, the people of my God, is the prophet;yet a fowler’s snare is on all his ways,hostility in the house of his God.