Hosea 9

Judgment of Israel’s Sin

1 Do*Is. 22:12, 13; Hos. 10:5 not rejoice, O Israel, with joy like other peoples,

For you have played the harlot against your God.

You have made love for*Jer. 44:17hire on every threshing floor.

2 The threshing floor and the winepress

Shall not feed them,

And the new wine shall fail in her.

3 They shall not dwell in *(Lev. 25:23); Jer. 2:7the Lord’s land,

*Hos. 7:16; 8:13But Ephraim shall return to Egypt,

And *Ezek. 4:13shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord,

Nor *Jer. 6:20shall their *Hos. 8:13; Amos 5:22sacrifices be pleasing to Him.

Itshallbe like bread of mourners to them;

All who eat it shall be defiled.

For their bread shallbe for their own life;

It shall not come into the house of the Lord.

5 What will you do in the appointed day,

And in the day of the feast of the Lord?

6 For indeed they are gone because of destruction.

Egypt shall gather them up;

Memphis shall bury them.

*Is. 5:6; 7:23; Hos. 10:8Nettles shall possess their valuables of silver;

Thorns shallbe in their tents.

7 The *Is. 10:3; Jer. 10:15; Mic. 7:4; Luke 21:22days of punishment have come;

The days of recompense have come.

Israel knows!

The prophet is a *Lam. 2:14; (Ezek. 13:3, 10)fool,

*Mic. 2:11The spiritual man is insane,

Because of the greatness of your iniquity and great enmity.

8 The *Jer. 6:17; 31:6; Ezek. 3:17; 33:7watchman of Ephraim is with my God;

But the prophet is a fowler’s snare in all his ways—

Enmity in the house of his God.

9 *Hos. 10:9They are deeply corrupted,

As in the days of *Judg. 19:22Gibeah.

He will remember their iniquity;

He will punish their sins.

10 "I found Israel

Like grapes in the *Jer. 2:2wilderness;

I saw your fathers

As the *Is. 28:4; Mic. 7:1firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season.

But they went to *Num. 25:3; Ps. 106:28Baal Peor,

And separated themselves tothat shame;

*Ps. 81:12They became an abomination like the thing they loved.

11 Asfor Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird—

No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!

12 Though they bring up their children,

Yet I will bereave them to the last man.

Yes, *Deut. 31:17; Hos. 7:13woe to them when I depart from them!

13 Just *Ezek. 26—28as I saw Ephraim like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place,

So Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer."

14 Give them, O Lord—

What will You give?

Give them *Luke 23:29a miscarrying womb

And dry breasts!

15 "All their wickedness is in *Hos. 4:15; 12:11Gilgal,

For there I hated them.

Because of the evil of their deeds

I will drive them from My house;

I will love them no more.

*Is. 1:23; Hos. 5:2All their princes are rebellious.

16 Ephraim is *Hos. 5:11stricken,

Their root is dried up;

They shall bear no fruit.

Yes, were they to bear children,

I would kill the darlings of their womb."

17 My God will *2 Kin. 17:20; (Zech. 10:6)cast them away,

Because they did not obey Him;

And they shall be *Lev. 26:33wanderers among the nations.