| 9 | Hosea | ||
| 1 | Do not rejoice, Israel, do not exult like other peoples; for like a wanton you have forsaken your God, you have loved an idol on every threshing-floor heaped with corn. | Hosea pronounces punishment for Israel. Hs.9.1-9 | |
| 2 | Threshing-floor and winepress shall know them no more, new wine shall disown them. | ||
| 3 | They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; Ephraim shall go back to Egypt, or in Assyria they shall eat unclean food. | ||
| 4 | They shall pour out no wine to the LORD, they shall not bring their sacrifices to him; that would be mourners' fare for them, and all who ate it would be polluted. For their food shall only stay their hunger; it shall not be offered in the house of the LORD. | ||
| 5 | What will you do for the festal day, the day of the LORD's pilgrim-feast? | ||
| 6 | For look, they have fled from a scene of devastation: Egypt shall receive them, Memphis shall be their grave; the sands of Syrtes shall wreck them, weeds shall inherit their land, thorns shall grow in their dwellings. | ||
| 7 | The days of punishment are come, the days of vengeance are come when Israel shall be humbled. Then the prophet shall be made a fool and the inspired seer a madman by your great guilt. | ||
| 8 | With great enmity Ephraim lies in wait for God's people while the prophet is a fowler's trap by all their paths, a snare in the very temple of God. | ||
| 9 | They lead them deep into sin as at the time of Gibeah. Their guilt will be remembered and their sins punished. | ||
| 10 | I came upon Israel like grapes in the wilderness, I looked on their forefathers with joy like the first ripe figs; but they resorted to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to a thing of shame, and Ephraim became as loathsome as the thing he loved. | The consequences of Israel's sin. Hs.9.10-14 | |
| 11 | Their honour shall fly away like a bird: no childbirth, no fruitful womb, no conceiving; | ||
| 12 | even if they rear their children, I will make them childless, without posterity. Woe to them indeed when I turn away from them! | ||
| 13 | As lion-cubs emerge only to be hunted , so must Ephraim bring out his children for slaughter. | ||
| 14 | Give them, O LORD—what wilt thou give them? Give them a womb that miscarries and dry breasts. | ||
| 15 | All their wickedness was seen at Gilgal; there did I hate them. For their evil deeds I will drive them from my house, I will love them no more: all their princes are in revolt. | Judgement on Israel. Hs.9.15-16 | |
| 16 | Ephraim is struck down: their root is withered, and they yield no fruit; if ever they give birth, I will slay the dearest offspring of their womb. | ||
| 17 | My God shall reject them, because they have not listened to him, and they shall become Wanderers among the nations. | ← The prophet speaks about Israel. Hs.9.17-10:8 | |
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