Hosea 9 (New American Standard)
View In My BibleEphraim Punished
1 1Do not rejoice, O Israel, awith exultation like the bnations ! For you have 2played the harlot, cforsaking your God. You have loved harlots' earnings on devery threshing floor. 2 Threshing floor and wine press will 3not feed them, And the new wine will fail ethem. 3 They will not remain in 4the LORD'S land, But Ephraim will return to 5Egypt, And in 6Assyria they will eat 7unclean food. 4 They will not pour out drink offerings of 8wine to the LORD, 9Their sacrifices will not please Him. Their bread will fbe like gmourners' bread ; All who eat of it will be 10defiled, For their bread will be for hthemselves alone; It will not enter the house of the LORD. 5 11What will you do on the day of the appointed festival And on the day of the 12feast of the LORD ? 6 For behold, they will go because of destruction ; Egypt will gather them up, 13Memphis will bury them. Weeds will take over their treasures of silver ; 14Thorns will be in their tents. 7 The days of 15punishment have come, The days of 16retribution have come ; iLet Israel know this! The prophet is a 17fool, The jinspired man is 18demented, Because of the grossness of your 19iniquity, And because your hostility is so great. 8 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. 9 They have gone 20deep kin depravity As in the days of 21Gibeah ; He will 22remember their iniquity, He will punish their sins. 10 I found Israel like 23grapes in the wilderness ; I saw your forefathers as the 24earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season. But they came to 25Baal-peor and devoted themselves to l26shame, And they became as 27detestable as that which they loved. 11 As for Ephraim, their 28glory will fly away like a bird - No birth, no pregnancy and no conception ! 12 Though they bring up their children, Yet I will bereave them muntil not a man is left. Yes, 29woe to them indeed when I depart from them! 13 Ephraim, as I have seen, Is planted in a pleasant meadow like 30Tyre ; But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter. 14 Give them, O LORD -what will You give ? Give them a 31miscarrying womb and dry breasts. 15 All their evil is at 32Gilgal ; Indeed, I came to hate them there ! Because of the 33wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of My house ! I will love them no more ; All their princes are 34rebels. 16 35Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up, They will bear 36no fruit. Even though they bear children, I will slay the 37precious ones of their womb. 17 My God will cast them away Because they have 38not listened to Him; And they will be 39wanderers among the nations.New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, California. All rights reserved. (New American Standard Version - Holy Bible)
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