Hosea Chapter 9 (NASB)
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Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations! For you have played the harlot, forsaking your God. You have loved [harlots]' earnings on every threshing floor.
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Threshing floor and wine press will not feed them, And the new wine will fail them.
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They will not remain in the LORD'S land, But Ephraim will return to Egypt, And in Assyria they will eat unclean [food].
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They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the LORD, Their sacrifices will not please Him. [Their bread will] [be] like mourners' bread; All who eat of it will be defiled, For their bread will be for themselves [alone]; It will not enter the house of the LORD.
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What will you do on the day of the appointed festival And on the day of the feast of the LORD?
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For behold, they will go because of destruction; Egypt will gather them up, Memphis will bury them. Weeds will take over their treasures of silver; Thorns [will be] in their tents.
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The days of punishment have come, The days of retribution have come; Let Israel know [this]! The prophet is a fool, The inspired man is demented, Because of the grossness of your iniquity, And [because] your hostility is [so] great.
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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.
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They have gone deep in depravity As in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their iniquity, He will punish their sins.
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I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your forefathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first [season]. [But] they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame, And they became as detestable as that which they loved.
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As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird-- No birth, no pregnancy and no conception!
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Though they bring up their children, Yet I will bereave them until not a man is left. Yes, woe to them indeed when I depart from them!
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Ephraim, as I have seen, Is planted in a pleasant meadow like Tyre; But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.
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Give them, O LORD-- what will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
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All their evil is at Gilgal; Indeed, I came to hate them there! Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of My house! I will love them no more; All their princes are rebels.
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Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up, They will bear no fruit. Even though they bear children, I will slay the precious ones of their womb.
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My God will cast them away Because they have not listened to Him; And they will be wanderers among the nations.
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