Ephraim will be desolate when it is rebuked. I have made known among the tribes of Israel what will surely come about.

"What am I to do with you, Ephraim? What am I to do with you, Judah? Your love is like a morning rain cloud it passes away like the morning dew.

"Israel has discarded what is good. The enemy will pursue them.

"What will you do on the designated holiday, when the LORD's festival comes?

"I found Israel, as one finds grapes in the wilderness; Your ancestors seemed to me like the fruit gleaned from a fig tree's first harvest. When they went to Baal-peor, they devoted themselves to that filth, and they became loathsome, like what they loved.

Give them, LORD What will you give? You will give them a womb that miscarries and dry breasts.

From now on they will say, "We have no king, because we did not fear the LORD and what would a king do for us?'

The LORD accuses Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; he will repay him for what he does.

Bring a prepared speech with you as you return to the LORD. Say to him: "Take away all our iniquity, and accept what is good. Then we will present the fruit of our lips.

"Ephraim, what have I in common with idols? I have listened and will pay attention to him. I am like a flourishing cypress; in me will your fruit be found."