Israel, if you act promiscuously,
don’t let Judah become guilty!
Do not go to Gilgal
or make a pilgrimage to Beth-aven,
and do not swear an oath: As the Lord lives!

Ephraim will become a desolation
on the day of punishment;
I announce what is certain
among the tribes of Israel.

So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove;
they call to Egypt, and they go to Assyria.

They will not pour out
their wine offerings to the Lord,
and their sacrifices will not please Him.
Their food will be like the bread of mourners;
all who eat it become defiled.
For their bread will be for their appetites alone;
it will not enter the house of the Lord.

My God will reject them
because they have not listened to Him;
they will become wanderers among the nations.

But Ephraim says:
“How rich I have become;
I made it all myself.
In all my earnings,
no one can find any crime in me
that I can be punished for!”