2 The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them,and the new wine will fail her.
3 They won’t dwell in the Lord’s land;but Ephraim will return to Egypt,and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
4 They won’t pour out wine offerings to the Lord,neither will they be pleasing to him.Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;all who eat of it will be polluted;for their bread will be for their appetite.It will not come into the Lord’s house.
5 What will you do in the day of solemn assembly,and in the day of the feast of the Lord?
6 For, behold, they have gone away from destruction.Egypt will gather them up.Memphis will bury them.Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver.Thorns will be in their tents.
7 The days of visitation have come.The days of reckoning have come.Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool,and the man who is inspired to be insane,because of the abundance of your sins,and because your hostility is great.
8 A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God.A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths,and hostility in the house of his God.