Hosea 9
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1"Don't celebrate, Israel, like other nations would rejoice, because you left your God by committing fornication, loving the profit you gained on all of the threshing floors.1Rejoice 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.
2Neither threshing floor nor winepress will sustain them, and the new wine will disappoint her.2Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them.
3They will not live in the LORD's land— Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.3They shall not remain in the land of the LORD, but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.
4They won't present wine offerings to the LORD, nor will they please him. Their sacrifices will seem like food for mourners— everyone who eats them will become unclean; none of them will enter the Temple of the LORD.4They 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 designated holiday, when the LORD's festival comes?5What will you do on the day of the appointed festival, and on the day of the feast of the LORD?
6Look! They have gone away because of the destruction— Egypt will gather them up, and Memphis will bury them. Weeds will overgrow their inheritance, and thorns will grow in their tents.6For 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.
7The time for your judgment has now come; payday is here— and Israel knows it. The prophet is a fool, and the spiritual man is insane. Because of your great sin, the hatred against you is great.7The 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.
8While Ephraim stands watch with my God, the prophet has snares set that will trap his ways, and hostility lodges in the Temple of his God.8The 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.
9They have corrupted themselves deeply, as did Gibeah in its day. Therefore God will remember their lawlessness, and he will pay them back for their sins.9They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins.
10"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.10Like 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.
11The glory of Ephraim will fly away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, not even a conception.11Ephraim’s glory shall fly away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
12Even if they rear their children, I will, in turn, make them childless— in fact, woe to them when I turn away from them!12Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them!
13Ephraim, as I see it, is like Tyre, planted in a comfortable place; Ephraim will bear children but they will be executed."13Ephraim, as I have seen, was like a young palm planted in a meadow; but Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.
14Give them, LORD— What will you give? You will give them a womb that miscarries and dry breasts.14Give them, O LORD— what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
15"All of their wickedness started in Gilgal, because I began to hate them there. Because of the wickedness of their behavior, I will drive them from my Temple. I will not love them anymore; all their leaders are rebels.15Every 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.
16Ephraim is blighted; its roots shriveled. It can bear no fruit. Even if they bear children, I will kill their cherished offspring.16Ephraim 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 did not obey him, and they will become wanderers among the nations."17My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations.
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