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The Lord Will Punish Israel

 Rejoice not, O Israel!
Exult not like the peoples;
for you have played the whore, forsaking your God.
You have loved a prostitute's wages
on all threshing floors.
² Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them,
and the new wine shall fail them.
³ They shall not remain in the land of the Lord,
but Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

⁴ They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the Lord,
and their sacrifices shall not please him.
It shall be like mourners' bread to them;
all who eat of it shall be defiled;
for their bread shall be for their hunger only;
it shall not come to the house of the Lord.

⁵ What will you do on the day of the appointed festival,
and on the day of the feast of the Lord?
⁶ For behold, they are going away from destruction;
but Egypt shall gather them;
Memphis shall bury them.
Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver;
thorns shall be in their tents.

⁷ The days of punishment have come;
the days of recompense have come;
Israel shall know it.
The prophet is a fool;
the man of the spirit is mad,
because of your great iniquity
and great hatred.
⁸ The prophet is the watchman of Ephraim with my God;
yet a fowler's snare is on all his ways,
and hatred in the house of his God.
⁹ They have deeply corrupted themselves
as in the days of Gibeah:
he will remember their iniquity;
he will punish their sins.

¹⁰ Like grapes in the wilderness,
I found Israel.
Like the first fruit on the fig tree
in its first season,
I saw your fathers.
But they came to Baal-peor
and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame,
and became detestable like the thing they loved.
¹¹ Ephraim's glory shall fly away like a bird—
no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
¹² Even if they bring up children,
I will bereave them till none is left.
Woe to them
when I depart from them!
¹³ Ephraim, as I have seen, was like a young palm^[a] planted in a meadow;
but Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.^[b]
14 Give them, O Lord—
what will you give?
Give them a miscarrying womb
and dry breasts.

¹⁵ Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal;
there I began to hate them.
Because of the wickedness of their deeds
I will drive them out of my house.
I will love them no more;
all their princes are rebels.

¹⁶ Ephraim is stricken;
their root is dried up;
they shall bear no fruit.
Even though they give birth,
I will put their beloved children to death.
¹⁷ My God will reject them
because they have not listened to him;
they shall be wanderers among the nations.

Footnotes:

1. Hosea 9:13 Or like Tyre
2. Hosea 9:13 Hebrew to him who slaughters

Cross references:

1. Hosea 9:1 : ch. 1:2
2. Hosea 9:1 : ch. 2:5; Jer. 44:17
3. Hosea 9:2 : [ch. 2:9]
4. Hosea 9:2 : [ch. 2:9]
5. Hosea 9:3 : Jer. 2:7; 16:18; See Lev. 25:23
6. Hosea 9:3 : See ch. 8:13
7. Hosea 9:3 : Ezek. 4:13; Dan. 1:8
8. Hosea 9:4 : [ch. 3:4]
9. Hosea 9:4 : [ch. 8:13]
10. Hosea 9:4 : Deut. 26:14; Ezek. 24:17
11. Hosea 9:4 : [Hag. 2:13]
12. Hosea 9:5 : [Isa. 10:3]
13. Hosea 9:6 : See ch. 8:13
14. Hosea 9:6 : [ch. 10:8; Isa. 2:20]
15. Hosea 9:6 : [ch. 10:8]
16. Hosea 9:7 : See Isa. 10:3
17. Hosea 9:7 : Ezek. 13:3
18. Hosea 9:8 : Ezek. 3:17
19. Hosea 9:8 : Ps. 91:3; [ch. 5:1]
20. Hosea 9:9 : [ch. 5:2]
21. Hosea 9:9 : ch. 10:9; Judg. 19:22
22. Hosea 9:9 : [ch. 5:2]
23. Hosea 9:10 : [Ps. 80:8; Isa. 5:1]
24. Hosea 9:10 : Num. 25:3; Ps. 106:28
25. Hosea 9:10 : [ch. 4:14]
26. Hosea 9:10 : [Rom. 1:28, 29]
27. Hosea 9:11 : ch. 10:5; [ch. 4:7]
28. Hosea 9:11 : [Isa. 26:18]
29. Hosea 9:12 : ch. 13:16
30. Hosea 9:12 : ch. 7:13
31. Hosea 9:12 : ch. 5:6; 1 Sam. 28:15, 16; Ezek. 10:18
32. Hosea 9:13 : [Ezek. 27:3]
33. Hosea 9:13 : [See ver. 12 above]; ch. 13:16
34. Hosea 9:14 : [Luke 23:29]
35. Hosea 9:15 : ch. 4:15; 12:11
36. Hosea 9:15 : ch. 8:4
37. Hosea 9:15 : [ch. 5:2]
38. Hosea 9:16 : [ver. 11]
39. Hosea 9:16 : [ver. 12, 13]
40. Hosea 9:16 : [See ver. 12 above]; ch. 13:16
41. Hosea 9:17 : [ch. 8:5]
42. Hosea 9:17 : Deut. 28:64, 65