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Hosea 9:1

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Fertility Cult Festivals Have Intoxicated Israel

9:1O Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly1 like the nations,

for you are unfaithful2 to your God.

You love to receive a prostitute’s wages3

on all the floors where you thresh your grain.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Heb “do not rejoice unto jubilation”; “Rejoice not … for joy”; “Do not rejoice … with exultation.”
  2. 2 Heb “you have committed adultery”; “you have played the whore.”
  3. 3 Heb “you love the wages of the prostitute” ( similar); “loving a harlot’s hire.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Do not rejoice, Israel;

do not be jubilant like the other nations.

For you have been unfaithful to your God;

you love the wages of a prostitute

at every threshing floor.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly as the nations do,

for you have acted promiscuously, leaving your God.

You love the wages of a prostitute

on every grain-threshing floor.

NLTNew Living Translation

O people of Israel,

do not rejoice as other nations do.

For you have been unfaithful to your God,

hiring yourselves out like prostitutes,

worshiping other gods on every threshing floor.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Do not rejoice, O Israel,

do not exult like the nations!

For you played the whore, departing from your God;

you loved a harlot’s wage

on all the threshing floors of grain.

KJV 1900King James Version

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

For thou hast gone a whoring from thy God,

Thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.