DB1
katapi NEW STUDY BIBLE - select-a-version: Revised Standard Version
katapi HOME Hosea 9:1-9 - Hosea pronounces punishment for Israel.  Hs.9.1-99 1 Rejoice not, O Israel!
Exult not like the peoples;
for you have played the harlot,
forsaking your God.
You have loved a harlot's hire
upon all threshing floors.
9 2 Threshing floor and winevat shall not feed them,
and the new wine shall fail them.
9 3 They shall not remain in the land of the LORD;
but E'phraim shall return to Egypt,
and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

9 4 They shall not pour libations of wine to the LORD;
and they shall not please him with their sacrifices.
Their bread shall be like mourners' bread;
all who eat of it shall be defiled;
for their bread shall be for their hunger only;
it shall not come to the house of the LORD.

9 5 What will you do on the day of appointed festival,
and on the day of the feast of the LORD?
9 6 For behold, they are going to Assyria;
Egypt shall gather them,
Memphis shall bury them.
Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver;
thorns shall be in their tents.

9 7 The days of punishment have come,
the days of recompense have come;
Israel shall know it.
The prophet is a fool,
the man of the spirit is mad,
because of your great iniquity
and great hatred.
9 8 The prophet is the watchman of E'phraim,
the people of my God,
yet a fowler's snare is on all his ways,
and hatred in the house of his God.
9 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves
as in the days of Gib'e-ah:
he will remember their iniquity,
he will punish their sins.