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      Hosea

      Hosea

      Chapter 9 of 14

      Hosea 9 (Listen)

      The Lord Will Punish Israel

      9:1   Rejoice not, O Israel!
          Exult not like the peoples;
        for you have played the whore, forsaking your God.
          You have loved a prostitute’s wages
          on all threshing floors.
      2   Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them,
          and the new wine shall fail them.
      3   They shall not remain in the land of the LORD,
          but Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
          and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.
      4   They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the LORD,
          and their sacrifices shall not please him.
        It shall be like mourners’ bread to them;
          all who eat of it shall be defiled;
        for their bread shall be for their hunger only;
          it shall not come to the house of the LORD.
      5   What will you do on the day of the appointed festival,
          and on the day of the feast of the LORD?
      6   For behold, they are going away from destruction;
          but Egypt shall gather them;
          Memphis shall bury them.
        Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver;
          thorns shall be in their tents.
      7   The days of punishment have come;
          the days of recompense have come;
          Israel shall know it.
        The prophet is a fool;
          the man of the spirit is mad,
        because of your great iniquity
          and great hatred.
      8   The prophet is the watchman of Ephraim with my God;
        yet a fowler’s snare is on all his ways,
          and hatred in the house of his God.
      9   They have deeply corrupted themselves
          as in the days of Gibeah:
        he will remember their iniquity;
          he will punish their sins.
      10   Like grapes in the wilderness,
          I found Israel.
        Like the first fruit on the fig tree
          in its first season,
          I saw your fathers.
        But they came to Baal-peor
          and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame,
          and became detestable like the thing they loved.
      11   Ephraim’s glory shall fly away like a bird—
          no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
      12   Even if they bring up children,
          I will bereave them till none is left.
        Woe to them
          when I depart from them!
      13   Ephraim, as I have seen, was like a young palm1 planted in a meadow;
          but Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.2
      14   Give them, O LORD—
          what will you give?
        Give them a miscarrying womb
          and dry breasts.
      15   Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal;
          there I began to hate 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.
      16   Ephraim is stricken;
          their root is dried up;
          they shall bear no fruit.
        Even though they give birth,
          I will put their beloved children to death.
      17   My God will reject them
          because they have not listened to him;
          they shall be wanderers among the nations.

      Hosea - 9:13 Or like Tyre
      Hosea - 9:13 Hebrew to him who slaughters

      Hosea

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