Hosea 9

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Hosea 9

The Coming Exile

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Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly as the nations do,^(A)
for you have acted promiscuously,^(B) leaving your God.
You have loved the wages of a prostitute
on every grain-threshing floor.^(C)

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Threshing floor and wine vat will not sustain them,^(D)
and the new wine will fail them.

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They will not stay in the land of the Lord.
Instead, Ephraim will return to Egypt,^(E)
and they will eat unclean food^(F) in Assyria.^(G)

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They will not pour out
their wine offerings to the Lord,^(H)
and their sacrifices will not please Him.
Their food will be like the bread of mourners;
all who eat it become defiled.^(I)
For their bread will be for their appetites alone;
it will not enter the house of the Lord.

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What will you do on a festival day,^(J)
on the day of the Lord’s feast?^(K)

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For even if they flee from devastation,
Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them.^(L)
Thistles will take possession of their precious silver;
thorns will invade their tents.^(M)

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The days of punishment have come;^(N)
the days of retribution have come.^(O)
Let Israel recognize it!
The prophet is a fool,^(P)
and the inspired man is insane,^(Q)
because of the magnitude
of your guilt and hostility.^(R)

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Ephraim’s watchman is with my God.
The prophet encounters a fowler’s snare
on all his ways.^(S)
Hostility is in the house of his God!

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They have deeply corrupted themselves^(T)
as in the days of Gibeah.^(U)
He will remember their guilt;
He will punish their sins.^(V)

Ephraim Bereaved of Offspring

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I discovered Israel
like grapes in the wilderness.^(W)
I saw your fathers
like the first fruit of the fig tree in its first season.^(X)
But they went to Baal-peor,^(Y)
consecrated themselves to Shame,^(a)^(Z)
and became detestable,^(AA)
like the thing they loved.

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Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird:^(AB)
no birth, no gestation, no conception.^(AC)

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Even if they raise children,
I will bereave them of each one.
Yes, woe to them when I depart from them!^(AD)

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I have seen Ephraim like Tyre,^(AE)
planted in a meadow,
so Ephraim will bring out his children
to the executioner.

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Give them, Lord—
What should You give?
Give them a womb that miscarries
and breasts that are dry!^(AF)

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All their evil appears at Gilgal,^(AG)
for there I came to hate them.
I will drive them from My house
because of their evil, wicked actions.^(AH)
I will no longer love them;
all their leaders are rebellious.^(AI)

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Ephraim^(AJ) is struck down;
their roots are withered;
they cannot bear fruit.^(AK)
Even if they bear children,
I will kill the precious offspring of their wombs.^(AL)

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My God will reject them
because they have not listened to Him;^(AM)
they will become wanderers among the nations.^(AN)

Footnotes:

a. Hosea 9:10: Baal

Cross references:

A. Hosea 9:1: Isaiah 22:12-13

B. Hosea 9:1: Hosea 4:12

C. Hosea 9:1: Hosea 7:14

D. Hosea 9:2: Hosea 2:9

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

F. Hosea 9:3: Ezekiel 4:13

G. Hosea 9:3: Hosea 11:7

H. Hosea 9:4: Numbers 15:5; Numbers 15:7; Numbers 15:10

I. Hosea 9:4: Numbers 19:11-14; Deuteronomy 26:12-14; Jeremiah 16:5-7

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

K. Hosea 9:5: Joel 1:13

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

M. Hosea 9:6: Isaiah 5:6; Isaiah 7:23

N. Hosea 9:7: Isaiah 10:3; Jeremiah 10:15

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

P. Hosea 9:7: Lamentations 2:14

Q. Hosea 9:7: Isaiah 44:25

R. Hosea 9:7: Ezekiel 14:9-10

S. Hosea 9:8: Proverbs 29:5-6

T. Hosea 9:9: Isaiah 31:6

U. Hosea 9:9: Judges 1:19-21; Judges 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 25:1-9

Z. Hosea 9:10: Jeremiah 11:13

AA. Hosea 9:10: Ezekiel 20:8

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

AC. Hosea 9:11: Hosea 4:10

AD. Hosea 9:12: Hosea 7:13

AE. Hosea 9:13: Ezekiel 27:3-4

AF. Hosea 9:14: Genesis 49:25

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

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

AI. Hosea 9:15: Hosea 5:2

AJ. Hosea 9:16: Hosea 5:11

AK. Hosea 9:16: Hosea 8:7

AL. Hosea 9:16: Ezekiel 24:21

AM. Hosea 9:17: Hosea 4:10

AN. Hosea 9:17: Hosea 7:13