The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Hosea 09
1 Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like
the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God.
You love the wages of a prostitute at
every grain threshing floor.
2 The threshing floor and the wine press
won’t feed them, and the new wine will fail her.
3 They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land;
but Ephraim will return to Egypt,
and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
4 They won’t pour out wine offerings to
Yahweh, neither will they be pleasing to him.
Their sacrifices will be to them like the
bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted;
for their bread will be for their appetite.
It will not come into Yahweh’s house.
5 What will you do in the day of solemn
assembly, and in the day of the feast of Yahweh?
6 For, behold, when they flee destruction,
Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them.
Nettles will possess their pleasant
things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.
7 The days of visitation have come.
The days of reckoning have come.
Israel will consider the prophetto be a fool,
and the man who is inspired to be
insane, because ofthe abundance of your sins,
and because your hostility is great.
8 A prophet watches over Ephraim with my
God. A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths,
and hostility in the house of his God.
9 They have deeply corrupted themselves,
as in the days of Gibeah.
He will remember their iniquity.
He will punish them for their sins.
10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness.
I saw your fathers as the first ripe in
the fig tree at its first season;
but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated
them selves to the shameful thing, and became
abominable like that which they loved.
11 As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away
like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with
child, and no conception.
12 Though they bring up their children,
yet I will bereave them, so that not a
man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them
when I depart from them!
13 I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted
in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring
out his children to the murderer.
14 Give them—Yahweh what will you give?
Give them a miscarrying womb and
dry breasts.
15 “All their wickedness is in Gilgal;
for there I hated them.
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.
16 Ephraim is struck.
Their root has dried up.
They will bear no fruit.
Even though they give birth, yet I will
kill the belove dones of their womb.”
17 My God will cast them away, because
they didn’t listen to him;
and they will be wanderers among the
nations.