Hosea 9

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Hosea 9

Ephraim Punished

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^(A)Do not rejoice, O Israel, ^(a)with exultation like the ^(b)nations!
For you have ^(B)played the harlot, ^(c)forsaking your God.
You have loved harlots’ earnings on ^(d)every threshing floor.

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Threshing floor and wine press will ^(C)not feed them,
And the new wine will fail ^(e)them.

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They will not remain in ^(D)the Lord’s land,
But Ephraim will return to ^(E)Egypt,
And in ^(F)Assyria they will eat ^(G)unclean food.

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They will not pour out drink offerings of ^(H)wine to the Lord,
^(I)Their sacrifices will not please Him.
Their bread will ^(f)be like ^(g)mourners’ bread;
All who eat of it will be ^(J)defiled,
For their bread will be for ^(h)themselves alone;
It will not enter the house of the Lord.

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^(K)What will you do on the day of the appointed festival
And on the day of the ^(L)feast of the Lord?

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For behold, they will go because of destruction;
Egypt will gather them up, ^(M)Memphis will bury them.
Weeds will take over their treasures of silver;
^(N)Thorns will be in their tents.

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The days of ^(O)punishment have come,
The days of ^(P)retribution have come;
⁽ⁱ⁾Let Israel know this!
The prophet is a ^(Q)fool,
The ^(j)inspired man is ^(R)demented,
Because of the grossness of your ^(S)iniquity,
And because your hostility is so great.

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Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet;
Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways,
And there is only hostility in the house of his God.

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They have gone ^(T)deep ^(k)in depravity
As in the days of ^(U)Gibeah;
He will ^(V)remember their iniquity,
He will punish their sins.

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I found Israel like ^(W)grapes in the wilderness;
I saw your forefathers as the ^(X)earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season.
But they came to ^(Y)Baal-peor and devoted themselves to ^(l)^(Z)shame,
And they became as ^(AA)detestable as that which they loved.

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As for Ephraim, their ^(AB)glory will fly away like a bird—
No birth, no pregnancy and no conception!

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Though they bring up their children,
Yet I will bereave them ^(m)until not a man is left.
Yes, ^(AC)woe to them indeed when I depart from them!

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Ephraim, as I have seen,
Is planted in a pleasant meadow like ^(AD)Tyre;
But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.

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Give them, O Lord—what will You give?
Give them a ^(AE)miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

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All their evil is at ^(AF)Gilgal;
Indeed, I came to hate them there!
Because of the ^(AG)wickedness of their deeds
I will drive them out of My house!
I will love them no more;
All their princes are ^(AH)rebels.

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^(AI)Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up,
They will bear ^(AJ)no fruit.
Even though they bear children,
I will slay the ^(AK)precious ones of their womb.

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My God will cast them away
Because they have ^(AL)not listened to Him;
And they will be ^(AM)wanderers among the nations.

Footnotes:

a. Hosea 9:1: ['Lit ', to]

b. Hosea 9:1: ['Lit ', peoples]

c. Hosea 9:1: ['Lit ', away from your God]

d. Hosea 9:1: ['Lit ', all threshing floors of grain]

e. Hosea 9:2: ['Lit ', her]

f. Hosea 9:4: ['Lit be ', to them]

g. Hosea 9:4: ['Or ', bread of misfortune]

h. Hosea 9:4: ['Lit ', their appetite]

i. Hosea 9:7: ['Or ', Israel will know it]

j. Hosea 9:7: ['Lit ', man of the spirit]

k. Hosea 9:9: ['Lit ', they have corrupted]

l. Hosea 9:10: ['I.e. Baal']

m. Hosea 9:12: ['Lit ', without a man]

Cross references:

A. Hosea 9:1: Isaiah 22:12; Isaiah 22:13; Hosea 10:5

B. Hosea 9:1: Hosea 4:12

C. Hosea 9:2: Hosea 2:9

D. Hosea 9:3: Leviticus 25:23; Jeremiah 2:7

E. Hosea 9:3: Hosea 7:16; Hosea 8:13

F. Hosea 9:3: Hosea 7:11

G. Hosea 9:3: Ezekiel 4:13

H. Hosea 9:4: Exodus 29:40

I. Hosea 9:4: Jeremiah 6:20; Hosea 8:13

J. Hosea 9:4: Haggai 2:13; Haggai 2:14

K. Hosea 9:5: Isaiah 10:3; Jeremiah 5:31

L. Hosea 9:5: Hosea 2:11; Joel 1:13

M. Hosea 9:6: Isaiah 19:13; Jeremiah 2:16; Jeremiah 44:1; Jeremiah 46:14; Jeremiah 46:19; Ezekiel 30:13; Ezekiel 30:16

N. Hosea 9:6: Isaiah 5:6; Isaiah 7:23; Hosea 10:8

O. Hosea 9:7: Isaiah 10:3; Jeremiah 10:15; Micah 7:4; Luke 21:22

P. Hosea 9:7: Isaiah 34:8; Jeremiah 16:18; Jeremiah 25:14

Q. Hosea 9:7: Lamentations 2:14; Ezekiel 13:3; Ezekiel 13:10

R. Hosea 9:7: Isaiah 44:25

S. Hosea 9:7: Ezekiel 14:9; Ezekiel 14:10

T. Hosea 9:9: Isaiah 31:6

U. Hosea 9:9: Judges 19:12; Judges 19:16-30; Hosea 10:9

V. Hosea 9:9: Hosea 7:2; Hosea 8:13

W. Hosea 9:10: Micah 7:1

X. Hosea 9:10: Jeremiah 24:2

Y. Hosea 9:10: Numbers 25:1-5; Psalm 106:28; Psalm 106:29

Z. Hosea 9:10: Jeremiah 11:13; Hosea 4:18

AA. Hosea 9:10: Psalm 115:8; Ezekiel 20:8

AB. Hosea 9:11: Hosea 4:7; Hosea 10:5

AC. Hosea 9:12: Deuteronomy 31:17; Hosea 7:13

AD. Hosea 9:13: Ezekiel 26:1-21

AE. Hosea 9:14: Hosea 9:11

AF. Hosea 9:15: Hosea 4:15; Hosea 12:11

AG. Hosea 9:15: Hosea 4:9; Hosea 7:2; Hosea 12:2

AH. Hosea 9:15: Isaiah 1:23; Hosea 5:2

AI. Hosea 9:16: Hosea 5:11

AJ. Hosea 9:16: Hosea 8:7

AK. Hosea 9:16: Ezekiel 24:21

AL. Hosea 9:17: Hosea 4:10

AM. Hosea 9:17: Hosea 7:13