Hosea 9:1–17

aRejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people:

For bthou hast gone a whoring from thy God,

Thou hast loved ca reward ||upon every cornfloor.

2  dThe floor and dthe ||winepress shall not feed them,

And dethe new wine shall eefail in her.

3  They shall not dwell in fthe Lord’s land;

But gEphraim shall return to Egypt,

And hthey shall eat unclean things iin Assyria.

4  kThey shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord,

lNeither shall they be pleasing unto him:

Their sacrifices shall be unto them as mthe bread of mourners;

nAll that eat thereof shall be polluted:

For their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the Lord.

5  What will ye do in othe solemn day,

And in the day of othe feast of the Lord?

6  For, lo, they are gone because of †destruction:

gEgypt shall gather them up, pMemphis shall bury them:

||†The pleasant places for their silver, qnettles shall possess them:

qThorns shall be in their tabernacles.

7  rThe days of visitation are come,

The days of srecompence are come;

sIsrael shall know it:

tThe prophet is a fool, tthe †spiritual man is umad,

For the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

8  vThe watchman of Ephraim was with my God:

But tthe prophet is wa snare of a fowler in all his ways,

And hatred ||in the house of his God.

9  They have xdeeply ycorrupted themselves, as zin the days of Gibeah:

Therefore ahe will remember their iniquity, ahe will visit their sins.

10  I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness;

I saw your fathers as bthe firstripe in the fig tree cat her first time:

But dthey went to eBaal-peor, and fseparated themselves unto gthat shame;

And htheir abominations were according as they loved.

11  As for Ephraim, itheir glory shall fly away like a bird,

jFrom the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

12  kThough they bring up their children,

Yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left:

Yea, lwoe also to them mwhen I depart from them!

13  Ephraim, as I saw nTyrus, is planted in a pleasant place:

But Ephraim kshall bring forth his children to the murderer.

14  Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give?

Give them oa †miscarrying womb and odry breasts.

15  All their wickedness is pin Gilgal: for there I hated them:

For the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house,

I will love them no more:

All qtheir princes are rrevolters.

16  Ephraim is smitten, jstheir root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit:

Yea, kthough they bring forth, yet will I slay even †the beloved fruit of their womb.

17  My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him:

And tthey shall be wanderers among the nations.