E.
The idolatry of Israel against Jehovah and the punishments of Jehovah upon Israel
9:1—10:15
Hosea 9
:1
9:1
Do not rejoice, O Israel,
To exult like the nations.
For you have gone as a
aharlot away from your God;
You have loved payment
Upon every grain floor.
Hosea 9
:2
9:2
The threshing floor and the winepress will not feed them,
And the new wine will fail her.
Hosea 9
:3
9:3
They will not dwell in the land of Jehovah;
But Ephraim will return to
aEgypt,
And in Assyria they will eat
bwhat is unclean.
Hosea 9
:4
9:4
They will not pour out offerings of wine to Jehovah,
Neither will their sacrifices be pleasing to Him;
They will be to them as the bread of mourning;
All who eat them will be unclean,
For their bread will be for themselves;
It will not come into the house of Jehovah.
Hosea 9
:5
9:5
What will you do
In the day of assembly
And in the day of the feast of Jehovah?
Hosea 9
:6
9:6
For they will go because of destruction;
Egypt will gather them;
1Moph will bury them.
As for their desirable
2things of silver, nettles will dispossess them;
Thistles will be in their tents.
Hosea 9
:7
9:7
The days of the visitation have come;
The days of the recompense have come;
Israel will know
it.
The prophet is a fool,
The
1inspired man is mad,
Because of the greatness of your iniquity
And
because of the greatness of the enmity.
Hosea 9
:8
9:8
Ephraim was a
1watchman With my God.
As for the
2prophet, a fowler’s trap
Is in all his ways;
Enmity is in the house of his God.
Hosea 9
:9
9:9
They have deeply corrupted themselves
As in the days of
1aGibeah;
He will remember their iniquity;
He will punish their sins.
Hosea 9
:10
9:10
I 1found Israel
Like grapes in the wilderness;
I saw your fathers
As the first ripe fruit on the fig tree at its beginning.
They went to
aBaal-peor
And sanctified themselves unto the shameful thing,
And they became detestable, like the thing that they loved.
Hosea 9
:11
9:11
As for Ephraim, their glory
Will fly away like a bird —
No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!
Hosea 9
:12
9:12
For even if they bring up their children,
I will bereave them,
so that not a man
is left.
Indeed woe also to them
When I
aturn away from them.
Hosea 9
:13
9:13
Ephraim, as I have seen
him,
Is planted like Tyre in a meadow;
But Ephraim will bring forth
His children to the slayer.
Hosea 9
:14
9:14
Give them, O Jehovah —
What will You give
them?
Give them a miscarrying womb
And dry breasts.
Hosea 9
:15
9:15
All their evil is in
aGilgal,
For there I hated them.
Because of the evil of their doings
I will drive them from My house,
I will love them no more;
All their princes are rebels.
Hosea 9
:16
9:16
Ephraim is stricken;
Their root is dried up;
They will not bear fruit.
Indeed though they bring forth,
I will kill the beloved
fruit of their womb.
Hosea 9
:17
9:17
My God has rejected them,
For they did not listen to Him.
And they will be
awanderers among the nations.
