2 The threshing floor and the winepressShall not feed them,And the new wine shall fail in her.
3 They shall not dwell in the Lord’s land,But Ephraim shall return to Egypt,And shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord,Nor shall their sacrifices be pleasing to Him.It shall be like bread of mourners to them;All who eat it shall be defiled.For their bread shall be for their own life;It shall not come into the house of the Lord.
5 What will you do in the appointed day,And in the day of the feast of the Lord?
6 For indeed they are gone because of destruction.Egypt shall gather them up;Memphis shall bury them.Nettles shall possess their valuables of silver;Thorns shall be in their tents.
7 The days of punishment have come;The days of recompense have come.Israel knows!The prophet is a fool,The spiritual man is insane,Because of the greatness of your iniquity and great enmity.
8 The watchman of Ephraim is with my God;But the prophet is a fowler’s snare in all his ways—Enmity in the house of his God.