Hosea Chapter 9 Back Next{9:1} Don't rejoice,
Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were un
faithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every
grain threshing floor.
{9:2} The threshing floor and the winepress won't feed them, and the new wine will fail her.
{9:3} They won't dwell in Yahweh's land; but
Ephraim will return to
Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in
Assyria.
{9:4} They won't pour out wine offerings to Yahweh, 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 house of Yahweh.
{9:5} What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the
feast of Yahweh?
{9:6} 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.
{9:7} 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.
{9:8} 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.
{9:9} They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of
Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins.
{9:10} I found Israel like
grapes in the wilderness. I saw your
fathers as the first ripe in the
fig tree at its first season; but they came to
Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.
{9:11} As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a
bird. There will be no
birth, none with child, and no conception.
{9:12} Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!
{9:13} I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.
{9:14} Give them--Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
{9:15} "All their wickedness is in
Gilgal; for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels.
{9:16} Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no
fruit. Even though they bring forth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb."
{9:17} My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.
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