Bible, King James Version
Hosea
Hos.9
[1] 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.
[2] The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and
the new wine shall fail in her.
[3] They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim
shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in
Assyria.
[4] They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD,
neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall
be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall
be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into
the house of the LORD.
[5] What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of
the feast of the LORD?
[6] For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt
shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant
places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall
be in their tabernacles.
[7] The days of visitation are come, the days of
recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool,
the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity,
and the great hatred.
[8] The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the
prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the
house of his God.
[9] They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days
of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will
visit their sins.
[10] I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw
your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time:
but they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that
shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
[11] As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a
bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the
conception.
[12] Though they bring up their children, yet will I
bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also
to them when I depart from them!
[13] Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant
place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the
murderer.
[14] Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a
miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
[15] All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated
them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of
mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are
revolters.
[16] Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they
shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I
slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.
[17] My God will cast them away, because they did not
hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the
nations.
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