## translationWords

* [[en:tw:adultery]]
* [[en:tw:adultery|adultery, adulterous, adulterer, adulteress]]
* [[en:tw:defile]]
* [[en:tw:defile|defile, be defiled, desecrate]]
* [[en:tw:ephraim]]
* [[en:tw:ephraim|Ephraim]]
* [[en:tw:god]]
* [[en:tw:god|God]]
* [[en:tw:israel]]
* [[en:tw:israel|Israel, Israelites, nation of Israel]]
* [[en:tw:know]]
* [[en:tw:prostitute]]
* [[en:tw:works]]
* [[en:tw:works|works, deeds, work]]
* [[en:tw:yahweh]]
* [[en:tw:yahweh|Yahweh]]

## translationNotes

* Yahweh is talking about Israel.
* **I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me. ** - Yahweh knows that Ephraim (Israel) is idolatrous. There is no way that they can worship idols without Yahweh knowing what they are doing. (See: [[:en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_parallelism]])
* **Ephraim, now you have become like a prostitute** - Ephraim are being compared to a prostitute since she is so unfaithful to God (See: [[:en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_simile]])
* **for the spirit of adultery is in them** - the people of Israel are so inbred with their idolatrous practices they are not like the people of God. (See: [[:en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_metaphor]])
* **and they do not know me, Yahweh** - Israel no longer listens to or follows Yahweh in any way. They do not acknowledge him as their God.