Hos 9 | ABEn | STEP | Rejoice not, O Israel, nor be glad as the peoples! For you went whoring from the lord your God. You loved gifts upon every threshing-floor of grain.

‏ Hosea 9

CHAPTER 9 The Iniquities of Israel and Ephraim

1 Rejoice not, O Israel, nor be glad as the peoples! For you went whoring from the lord your God. You loved gifts upon every threshing-floor of grain. 2 The threshing-floor and wine vat did not know them, and the wine lied to them. 3 They did not dwell in the land of the lord; Ephraim dwelt in Egypt, and among the Assyrians [²unclean things ¹they shall eat]. 4 They offered not a libation to the lord of wine, and were not delicious to him; their sacrifices were as bread of mourning to them; all the ones eating them shall be defiled. For their bread loaves for their lives shall not enter into the house of the lord. 5 What will you do in the day of festival, and in the day of the holiday feast of the lord? 6 On account of this, behold, they are gone from the misery of Egypt, and [²shall look out for ³them ¹Memphis], and [²shall entomb ³them ¹Machmas]. Their silver -- ruin shall inherit it; thorn-bushes in their tents. 7 [⁴have come ¹The ²days ³of vengeance]; [⁴have come ¹the ²days ³of your recompense]; and Israel shall be afflicted as if the prophet, the one moved out of place, as a man carried by the wind. Because of the multitude of your iniquities [²was multiplied ¹your frenzy]. 8 The watchman of Ephraim was with God; the prophet [²snare ¹is a crooked] upon all his ways; [²frenzy ³in ⁴the house ⁵of God ¹they firmly fastened]. 9 They were corrupted according to the days of the hill. He shall remember their iniquities, he will punish their sins. 10 As a grape in the wilderness I found Israel; as a fig in [²fig-tree ¹the early] I beheld their fathers. They entered to Baal Peor, and they were separated for shame, and [³became ¹the things ²being abhorred] as the things being loved. 11 Ephraim as a bird was spread forth away, their glory of births and pangs and from conceptions. 12 For if even they should nourish their children, they shall be made childless of men; for [²even ³a woe ⁴to them ¹there is]; my flesh from them. 13 Ephraim, in which manner I saw, [³as ⁴game ¹rendered ²their children]; to lead out [²for ³piercing ¹their children]. 14 Give to them, O lord! What will you give to them? Give to them a womb being childless and [²breasts ¹dry]! 15 All their evils are in Gilgal, for there I detested them. Because of the evils of their practices [³out of ⁴my house ¹I will cast ²them]. No way shall I proceed to love them. All their rulers resist persuasion. 16 Ephraim toiled, his roots were dried, [³fruit ⁴any longer ¹in no way ²should he bear]; therefore if they should bear, I shall kill the desires of their bellies. 17 [²shall thrust them away ¹God], for they hearkened not to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.