Ephraim Punished
9 (A)Do not rejoice, O Israel, [a]with exultation like the [b]nations!
For you have (B)played the harlot, [c]forsaking your God.
You have loved harlots’ earnings on [d]every threshing floor.
2 Threshing floor and wine press will (C)not feed them,
And the new wine will fail [e]them.
3 They will not remain in (D)the Lord’s land,
But Ephraim will return to (E)Egypt,
And in (F)Assyria they will eat (G)unclean food.
4 They will not pour out drink offerings of (H)wine to the Lord,
(I)Their sacrifices will not please Him.
Their bread will [f]be like [g]mourners’ bread;
All who eat of it will be (J)defiled,
For their bread will be for [h]themselves alone;
It will not enter the house of the Lord.
5 (K)What will you do on the day of the appointed festival
And on the day of the (L)feast of the Lord?
6 For behold, they will go because of destruction;
Egypt will gather them up, (M)Memphis will bury them.
Weeds will take over their treasures of silver;
(N)Thorns will be in their tents.
7 The days of (O)punishment have come,
The days of (P)retribution have come;
[i]Let Israel know this!
The prophet is a (Q)fool,
The [j]inspired man is (R)demented,
Because of the grossness of your (S)iniquity,
And because your hostility is so great.
8 Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet;
Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways,
And there is only hostility in the house of his God.
9 They have gone (T)deep [k]in depravity
As in the days of (U)Gibeah;
He will (V)remember their iniquity,
He will punish their sins.
10 I found Israel like (W)grapes in the wilderness;
I saw your forefathers as the (X)earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season.
But they came to (Y)Baal-peor and devoted themselves to [l](Z)shame,
And they became as (AA)detestable as that which they loved.
11 As for Ephraim, their (AB)glory will fly away like a bird—
No birth, no pregnancy and no conception!
12 Though they bring up their children,
Yet I will bereave them [m]until not a man is left.
Yes, (AC)woe to them indeed when I depart from them!
13 Ephraim, as I have seen,
Is planted in a pleasant meadow like (AD)Tyre;
But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.
14 Give them, O Lord—what will You give?
Give them a (AE)miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
15 All their evil is at (AF)Gilgal;
Indeed, I came to hate them there!
Because of the (AG)wickedness of their deeds
I will drive them out of My house!
I will love them no more;
All their princes are (AH)rebels.
16 (AI)Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up,
They will bear (AJ)no fruit.
Even though they bear children,
I will slay the (AK)precious ones of their womb.
17 My God will cast them away
Because they have (AL)not listened to Him;
And they will be (AM)wanderers among the nations.
Footnotes
- Hosea 9:1 Lit to
- Hosea 9:1 Lit peoples
- Hosea 9:1 Lit away from your God
- Hosea 9:1 Lit all threshing floors of grain
- Hosea 9:2 Lit her
- Hosea 9:4 Lit be to them
- Hosea 9:4 Or bread of misfortune
- Hosea 9:4 Lit their appetite
- Hosea 9:7 Or Israel will know it
- Hosea 9:7 Lit man of the spirit
- Hosea 9:9 Lit they have corrupted
- Hosea 9:10 I.e. Baal
- Hosea 9:12 Lit without a man
Cross references
- Hosea 9:1 : Is 22:12, 13; Hos 10:5
- Hosea 9:1 : Hos 4:12
- Hosea 9:2 : Hos 2:9
- Hosea 9:3 : Lev 25:23; Jer 2:7
- Hosea 9:3 : Hos 7:16; 8:13
- Hosea 9:3 : Hos 7:11
- Hosea 9:3 : Ezek 4:13
- Hosea 9:4 : Ex 29:40
- Hosea 9:4 : Jer 6:20; Hos 8:13
- Hosea 9:4 : Hag 2:13, 14
- Hosea 9:5 : Is 10:3; Jer 5:31
- Hosea 9:5 : Hos 2:11; Joel 1:13
- Hosea 9:6 : Is 19:13; Jer 2:16; 44:1; 46:14, 19; Ezek 30:13, 16
- Hosea 9:6 : Is 5:6; 7:23; Hos 10:8
- Hosea 9:7 : Is 10:3; Jer 10:15; Mic 7:4; Luke 21:22
- Hosea 9:7 : Is 34:8; Jer 16:18; 25:14
- Hosea 9:7 : Lam 2:14; Ezek 13:3, 10
- Hosea 9:7 : Is 44:25
- Hosea 9:7 : Ezek 14:9, 10
- Hosea 9:9 : Is 31:6
- Hosea 9:9 : Judg 19:12, 16-30; Hos 10:9
- Hosea 9:9 : Hos 7:2; 8:13
- Hosea 9:10 : Mic 7:1
- Hosea 9:10 : Jer 24:2
- Hosea 9:10 : Num 25:1-5; Ps 106:28, 29
- Hosea 9:10 : Jer 11:13; Hos 4:18
- Hosea 9:10 : Ps 115:8; Ezek 20:8
- Hosea 9:11 : Hos 4:7; 10:5
- Hosea 9:12 : Deut 31:17; Hos 7:13
- Hosea 9:13 : Ezek 26:1-21
- Hosea 9:14 : Hos 9:11
- Hosea 9:15 : Hos 4:15; 12:11
- Hosea 9:15 : Hos 4:9; 7:2; 12:2
- Hosea 9:15 : Is 1:23; Hos 5:2
- Hosea 9:16 : Hos 5:11
- Hosea 9:16 : Hos 8:7
- Hosea 9:16 : Ezek 24:21
- Hosea 9:17 : Hos 4:10
- Hosea 9:17 : Hos 7:13