Punishment for Israel
9 Do not rejoice, Israel;
do not be jubilant(A) like the other nations.
For you have been unfaithful(B) to your God;
you love the wages of a prostitute(C)
at every threshing floor.
2 Threshing floors and winepresses will not feed the people;
the new wine(D) will fail them.
3 They will not remain(E) in the Lord’s land;
Ephraim will return to Egypt(F)
and eat unclean food in Assyria.(G)
4 They will not pour out wine offerings(H) to the Lord,
nor will their sacrifices please(I) him.
Such sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;(J)
all who eat them will be unclean.(K)
This food will be for themselves;
it will not come into the temple of the Lord.(L)
5 What will you do(M) on the day of your appointed festivals,(N)
on the feast days of the Lord?
6 Even if they escape from destruction,
Egypt will gather them,(O)
and Memphis(P) will bury them.(Q)
Their treasures of silver(R) will be taken over by briers,
and thorns(S) will overrun their tents.
7 The days of punishment(T) are coming,
the days of reckoning(U) are at hand.
Let Israel know this.
Because your sins(V) are so many
and your hostility so great,
the prophet is considered a fool,(W)
the inspired person a maniac.(X)
8 The prophet, along with my God,
is the watchman over Ephraim,[a]
yet snares(Y) await him on all his paths,
and hostility in the house of his God.(Z)
9 They have sunk deep into corruption,(AA)
as in the days of Gibeah.(AB)
God will remember(AC) their wickedness
and punish them for their sins.(AD)
10 “When I found Israel,
it was like finding grapes in the desert;
when I saw your ancestors,
it was like seeing the early fruit(AE) on the fig(AF) tree.
But when they came to Baal Peor,(AG)
they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol(AH)
and became as vile as the thing they loved.
11 Ephraim’s glory(AI) will fly away like a bird(AJ)—
no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.(AK)
12 Even if they rear children,
I will bereave(AL) them of every one.
Woe(AM) to them
when I turn away from them!(AN)
13 I have seen Ephraim,(AO) like Tyre,
planted in a pleasant place.(AP)
But Ephraim will bring out
their children to the slayer.”(AQ)
14 Give them, Lord—
what will you give them?
Give them wombs that miscarry
and breasts that are dry.(AR)
15 “Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal,(AS)
I hated them there.
Because of their sinful deeds,(AT)
I will drive them out of my house.
I will no longer love them;(AU)
all their leaders are rebellious.(AV)
16 Ephraim(AW) is blighted,
their root is withered,
they yield no fruit.(AX)
Even if they bear children,
I will slay(AY) their cherished offspring.”
17 My God will reject(AZ) them
because they have not obeyed(BA) him;
they will be wanderers among the nations.(BB)
Footnotes
- Hosea 9:8 Or The prophet is the watchman over Ephraim, / the people of my God
Cross references
- Hosea 9:1 : Isa 22:12-13
- Hosea 9:1 : S Ps 73:27; S Isa 24:16; S Hos 7:14; 10:5
- Hosea 9:1 : S Ge 30:15
- Hosea 9:2 : Isa 24:7; Hos 2:9; Joel 1:10
- Hosea 9:3 : Lev 25:23
- Hosea 9:3 : S Hos 7:16; S 8:13
- Hosea 9:3 : Eze 4:13; S Hos 7:11; 10:5; Am 7:17
- Hosea 9:4 : Joel 1:9, 13; 2:14
- Hosea 9:4 : S Hos 8:13
- Hosea 9:4 : S Jer 16:7
- Hosea 9:4 : S Dt 26:14; Hag 2:13-14
- Hosea 9:4 : S Eze 4:13-14
- Hosea 9:5 : Isa 10:3; Jer 5:31
- Hosea 9:5 : S Hos 2:11
- Hosea 9:6 : S Hos 7:11; S 8:13
- Hosea 9:6 : S Isa 19:13
- Hosea 9:6 : S Jer 42:22
- Hosea 9:6 : Zep 1:11
- Hosea 9:6 : Isa 5:6; Hos 10:8
- Hosea 9:7 : Isa 34:8; Jer 10:15; Mic 7:4; Lk 21:22
- Hosea 9:7 : S Job 31:14
- Hosea 9:7 : Jer 16:18
- Hosea 9:7 : S 1Sa 10:11; Isa 44:25; S La 2:14; Eze 14:9-10
- Hosea 9:7 : S Jer 29:26; Hos 14:1
- Hosea 9:8 : S Hos 5:1
- Hosea 9:8 : S Eze 22:26
- Hosea 9:9 : Zep 3:7
- Hosea 9:9 : Jdg 19:16-30; S Hos 5:8
- Hosea 9:9 : S Hos 8:13
- Hosea 9:9 : S Hos 4:9
- Hosea 9:10 : S SS 2:13
- Hosea 9:10 : S Isa 28:4
- Hosea 9:10 : Nu 25:1-5; Ps 106:28-29
- Hosea 9:10 : Jer 11:13; S Hos 4:14
- Hosea 9:11 : S Isa 17:3
- Hosea 9:11 : S Hos 4:7; 10:5
- Hosea 9:11 : ver 14
- Hosea 9:12 : ver 16; S Eze 24:21
- Hosea 9:12 : Hos 7:13
- Hosea 9:12 : S Dt 31:17
- Hosea 9:13 : S Ps 78:67
- Hosea 9:13 : S Eze 27:3
- Hosea 9:13 : S Job 15:22; S La 2:22
- Hosea 9:14 : ver 11; Lk 23:29
- Hosea 9:15 : S Hos 4:15
- Hosea 9:15 : S Hos 7:2
- Hosea 9:15 : S Jer 12:8
- Hosea 9:15 : S Isa 1:23; S Hos 4:9; 5:2
- Hosea 9:16 : S Hos 5:11
- Hosea 9:16 : S Job 15:32; S Hos 8:7
- Hosea 9:16 : S ver 12
- Hosea 9:17 : S Jer 6:30
- Hosea 9:17 : S Hos 4:10
- Hosea 9:17 : S Dt 28:65; S Hos 7:13