chapter_Hosea_9
Hosea 9:1: 'Rejoice not, O Israel, be not joyful like the peoples, For thou hast gone a-whoring from thy God, Thou hast loved a gift near all floors of corn. Hosea 9:2: Floor and wine-press do not delight them, And new wine doth fail in her, Hosea 9:3: They do not abide in the land of Jehovah, And turned back hath Ephraim to Egypt, And in Asshur an unclean thing they eat. Hosea 9:4: They pour not out wine to Jehovah, Nor are they sweet to Him, Their sacrifices are as bread of mourners to them, All eating it are unclean: For their bread is for themselves, It doth not come into the house of Jehovah. Hosea 9:5: What do ye at the day appointed? And at the day of Jehovah's festival? Hosea 9:6: For, lo, they have gone because of destruction, Egypt gathereth them, Moph burieth them, The desirable things of their silver, Nettles possess them &#8212; a thorn is in their tents. Hosea 9:7: Come in have the days of inspection, Come in have the days of recompence, Israel doth know! a fool is the prophet, Mad is the man of the Spirit, Because of the abundance of thine iniquity, And great is the hatred. Hosea 9:8: Ephraim is looking away from My God, The prophet! a snare of a fowler is over all his ways, Hatred is in the house of his God. Hosea 9:9: They have gone deep &#8212; have done corruptly, As in the days of Gibeah, He doth remember their iniquity, He doth inspect their sins. Hosea 9:10: As grapes in a wilderness I found Israel, As the first-fruit in a fig-tree, at its beginning, I have seen your fathers, They &#8212; they have gone in to Baal-Peor, And are separated to a shameful thing, And are become abominable like their love. Hosea 9:11: Ephraim is as a fowl, Fly away doth their honour, without birth, And without womb, and without conception. Hosea 9:12: For though they nourish their sons, I have made them childless &#8212; without man, Surely also, woe to them, when I turn aside from them. Hosea 9:13: Ephraim! when I have looked to the rock, Is planted in comeliness, And Ephraim is to bring out unto a slayer his sons. Hosea 9:14: Give to them, Jehovah &#8212; what dost Thou give? Give to them miscarrying womb, and dry breasts. Hosea 9:15: All their evil is in Gilgal, Surely there I have hated them, Because of the evil of their doings, Out of My house I do drive them, I add not to love them, all their heads are apostates. Hosea 9:16: Ephraim hath been smitten, Their root hath dried up, fruit they yield not, Yea, though they bring forth, I have put to death the desired of their womb. Hosea 9:17: Reject them doth my God, Because they have not hearkened to Him, And they are wanderers among nations!
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