Hosea 9

1 O Israel, do not rejoice for joy, like the peoples. For you have gone lusting away from your God. You have loved a reward on all threshing-floors of grain. 2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. 3 They shall not live in the land of Jehovah. But Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria. 4 They shall not offer wine to Jehovah. They shall not be pleasing to Him. Their sacrifices shall be like the bread of sorrows to them; all who eat it shall be defiled, for their bread is for their person; it shall not come into the house of Jehovah. 5 What will you do in the day of meeting, and in the day of the feast of Jehovah? 6 For, lo, they have gone from destruction. Egypt shall gather them; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess the desirable things of their silver; thorns shall be in their tents. 7 The days of her visitation have come; the days of retribution have come. Israel shall know. The prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and your great hatred 8 Ephraim is a watchman with my God. The prophet is a snare of a fowler on all his ways; hatred is in the house of his God. 9 They have deeply corrupted, as in days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity; He will punish their sins. 10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruit in the fig tree at her first time. They came to Baal-peor and set themselves apart to a shameful thing. And they became hateful like that which they loved. 11 Ephraim is like a bird; their glory shall fly away, from birth, and from the womb, and from conception. 12 Though they nourish their sons, yet I will make them childless, without a man. Yea, woe also to them when I turn away from them! 13 As when I looked toward Tyre, Ephraim was planted in a pleasant place. But Ephraim shall bring forth his sons to the slayer. 14 O Jehovah, give them. What will you give them? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. 15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them out of My house for the wickedness of their doings, I will not love them again; all their rulers are revolters. 16 Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit. Yea, though they bear, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb. 17 My God shall reject them because they did not listen to Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.