Hosea 9:1 (WEB)
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.

Hosea 9:2 (WEB)
The threshing floor and the winepress won't feed them, And the new wine will fail her.

Hosea 9:3 (WEB)
They won't dwell in Yahweh's land; But Ephraim will return to Egypt, And they will eat unclean food in Assyria.

Hosea 9:4 (WEB)
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 the house of Yahweh.

Hosea 9:5 (WEB)
What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, And in the day of the feast of Yahweh?

Hosea 9:6 (WEB)
For, behold, they have gone away from destruction. Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.

Hosea 9:7 (WEB)
The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, And the man who is inspired to be insane, Because of the abundance of your sins, And because your hostility is great.

Hosea 9:8 (WEB)
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.

Hosea 9:9 (WEB)
They have deeply corrupted themselves, As in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins.

Hosea 9:10 (WEB)
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 themselves to the shameful thing, And became abominable like that which they loved.

Hosea 9:11 (WEB)
As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, none with child, and no conception.

Hosea 9:12 (WEB)
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!

Hosea 9:13 (WEB)
Ephraim, like I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place; But Ephraim will bring out his children to the killer.

Hosea 9:14 (WEB)
Give them--Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Hosea 9:15 (WEB)
"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.

Hosea 9:16 (WEB)
Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they bring forth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb."

Hosea 9:17 (WEB)
My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; And they will be wanderers among the nations.
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