Hosea 9New King James Version
Judgment of Israel’s Sin
9 Do(A)not rejoice, O Israel, with joy likeotherpeoples,
For you have played the harlot against your God.
You have made lovefor(B)hire on every threshing floor.
2 The threshing floor and the winepress
Shall not feed them,
And the new wine shall fail in her.
3 They shall not dwell in(C)theLord’s land,
(D)But Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
And(E)shall eat uncleanthingsin Assyria.
4 They shall not offer wineofferingsto theLord,
Nor(F)shall their(G)sacrifices be pleasing to Him.
It shall belike bread of mourners to them;
All who eat it shall be defiled.
For their breadshall befor theirownlife;
It shall not come into the house of theLord.
5 What will you do in the appointed day,
And in the day of the feast of theLord?
6 For indeed they are gone because of destruction.
Egypt shall gather them up;
Memphis shall bury them.
(H)Nettles shall possess their valuables of silver;
Thornsshall bein their tents.
7 The(I)days of punishment have come;
The days of recompense have come.
Israel knows!
The prophetisa(J)fool,
(K)The spiritual manisinsane,
Because of the greatness of your iniquity and great enmity.
8 The(L)watchman of Ephraimiswith my God;
But the prophetisa[a]fowler’s snare in all his ways—
Enmity in the house of his God.
9 (M)They are deeply corrupted,
As in the days of(N)Gibeah.
He will remember their iniquity;
He will punish their sins.
10 “I found Israel
Like grapes in the(O)wilderness;
I saw your fathers
As the(P)firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season.
Butthey went to(Q)Baal Peor,
And[b]separated themselvesto thatshame;
(R)They became an abomination like the thing they loved.
11 As forEphraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird—
No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!
12 Though they bring up their children,
Yet I will bereave them to the last man.
Yes,(S)woe to them when I depart from them!
13 Just(T)as I saw Ephraim like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place,
So Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.”
14 Give them, OLord—
What will You give?
Give them(U)a miscarrying womb
And dry breasts!
15 “All their wickednessisin(V)Gilgal,
For there I hated them.
Because of the evil of their deeds
I will drive them from My house;
I will love them no more.
(W)All their princesarerebellious.
16 Ephraim is(X)stricken,
Their root is dried up;
They shall bear no fruit.
Yes, were they to bear children,
I would kill the darlings of their womb.”
17 My God will(Y)cast them away,
Because they did not obey Him;
And they shall be(Z)wanderers among the nations.
Footnotes
- Hosea 9:8One who catches birds in a trap or snare
- Hosea 9:10Ordedicated
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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