Hosea 9

^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.

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

And ^dethe new wine shall ^eefail in her.

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

But ^gEphraim shall return to Egypt,

And ^hthey shall eat unclean things ⁱin Assyria.

^4kThey 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.

⁵What will ye do in ^othe solemn day,

And in the day of ^othe feast of the Lord?

⁶For 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.

^7rThe 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.

^8vThe 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.

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

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

¹⁰I 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.

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

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

^12kThough 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!

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

But Ephraim ^kshall bring forth his children to the murderer.

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

Give them ^oa miscarrying womb and ^odry breasts.

¹⁵All 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.

¹⁶Ephraim 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.

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

And ^tthey shall be wanderers among the nations.

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