Hoshea 9
Hoshea (Book of Hosea), Chapter 9
'"`UNIQ--named-00000000-QINU`"'1 Rejoice not, O Israel, unto exultation, like the peoples, for thou hast gone astray from thy G-d, thou hast loved a harlot's hire upon every corn-floor.
'"`UNIQ--named-00000001-QINU`"'2 The threshing-floor and the wine-press shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.
'"`UNIQ--named-00000002-QINU`"'3 They shall not dwell in HaShem'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.
'"`UNIQ--named-00000003-QINU`"'4 They shall not pour out wine-offerings to HaShem, 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 shall be for their appetite, it shall not come into the house of HaShem.
'"`UNIQ--named-00000004-QINU`"'5 What will ye do in the day of the appointed season, and in the day of the feast of HaShem?
'"`UNIQ--named-00000005-QINU`"'6 For, lo, they are gone away from destruction, yet Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them; their precious treasures of silver, nettles shall possess them, thorns shall be in their tents.
'"`UNIQ--named-00000006-QINU`"'7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come, Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is mad! For the multitude of thine iniquity, the enmity is great.
'"`UNIQ--named-00000007-QINU`"'8 Ephraim is a watchman with my G-d; as for the prophet, a fowler's snare is in all his ways, and enmity in the house of his G-d.
'"`UNIQ--named-00000008-QINU`"'9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their iniquity, He will punish their sins.
'"`UNIQ--named-00000009-QINU`"'10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness, I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at her first season; but so soon as they came to Baal-peor, they separated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became detestable like that which they loved.
'"`UNIQ--named-0000000A-QINU`"'11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird; there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.
'"`UNIQ--named-0000000B-QINU`"'12 Yea, though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there be not a man left; yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
'"`UNIQ--named-0000000C-QINU`"'13 Ephraim, like as I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the slayer.
'"`UNIQ--named-0000000D-QINU`"'14 Give them, O HaShem, whatsoever Thou wilt give; give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
'"`UNIQ--named-0000000E-QINU`"'15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them; because of the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of My house; I will love them no more, all their princes are rebellious.
'"`UNIQ--named-0000000F-QINU`"'16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit; yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved fruit of their womb.
'"`UNIQ--named-00000010-QINU`"'17 My G-d will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
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Portions © 1997 by Benyamin Pilant. Portions © 1998 by Larry Nelson.
