HOSEA 9: 1 – 17

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VERSE 1

Ho:9:1: Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.

 

 

VERSE 2

Ho:9:2: The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.

 

 

VERSE 3

Ho:9:3: They shall not dwell in the LORD’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

 

 

 

VERSE 4

Ho:9:4: They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.

 

 

 

VERSE 5

Ho:9:5: What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?

 

 

 

VERSE 6

Ho:9:6: For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.

 

 

 

VERSE 7

Ho:9:7: The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

 

 

 

VERSE 8

Ho:9:8: The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

 

 

 

VERSE 9

Ho:9:9: They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

 

 

 

VERSE 10

Ho:9:10: I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

 

 

 

VERSE 11

Ho:9:11: As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

 

 

 

VERSE 12

Ho:9:12: Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

 

 

 

VERSE 13

Ho:9:13: Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.

 

 

 

VERSE 14

Ho:9:14: Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

 

 

 

VERSE 15

Ho:9:15: All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.

 

 

 

VERSE 16

Ho:9:16: Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.

 

 

VERSE 17

Ho:9:17: My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.


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