Days of Punishment Have Come
aDo not be glad, O Israel, with rejoicing like the peoples!
For you have bplayed the harlot, forsaking your God.
You have loved harlots’ earnings on every threshing floor.
2 Threshing floor and wine press will anot feed them,
And the new wine will deceive them.
3 They will not remain in athe land of Yahweh,
But Ephraim will return to bEgypt,
And in cAssyria they will eat dunclean food.
4 They will not pour out drink offerings of awine to Yahweh;
bTheir sacrifices will not please Him.
Their bread will be like mourners’ bread;
All who eat of it will be cdefiled,
For their bread will be for themselves alone;
It will not enter the house of Yahweh.
5 aWhat will you do on the day of the appointed festival
And on the day of the bfeast of Yahweh?