ABP - Hosea - 9

9:1  Rejoice not, O Israel, nor be glad as the peoples! For you went whoring from the lord your God. You loved gifts upon every threshing-floor of grain.

9:2  The threshing-floor and wine vat did not know them, and the wine lied to them.

9:3  They did not dwell in the land of the lord; Ephraim dwelt in Egypt, and among the Assyrians [2unclean things 1they shall eat].

9:4  They offered not a libation to the lord of wine, and were not delicious to him; their sacrifices were as bread of mourning to them; all the ones eating them shall be defiled. For their bread loaves for their lives shall not enter into the house of the lord.

9:5  What will you do in the day of festival, and in the day of the holiday feast of the lord?

9:6  On account of this, behold, they are gone from the misery of Egypt, and [2shall look out for 3them 1Memphis], and [2shall entomb 3them 1Machmas]. Their silver -- ruin shall inherit it; thorn-bushes in their tents.

9:7  [4have come 1The 2days 3of vengeance]; [4have come 1the 2days 3of your recompense]; and Israel shall be afflicted as if the prophet, the one moved out of place, as a man carried by the wind. Because of the multitude of your iniquities [2was multiplied 1your frenzy].

9:8  The watchman of Ephraim was with God; the prophet [2snare 1is a crooked] upon all his ways; [2frenzy 3in 4the house 5of God 1they firmly fastened].

9:9  They were corrupted according to the days of the hill. He shall remember their iniquities, he will punish their sins.

9:10  As a grape in the wilderness I found Israel; as a fig in [2fig-tree 1the early] I beheld their fathers. They entered to Baal Peor, and they were separated for shame, and [3became 1the things 2being abhorred] as the things being loved.

9:11  Ephraim as a bird was spread forth away, their glory of births and pangs and from conceptions.

9:12  For if even they should nourish their children, they shall be made childless of men; for [2even 3a woe 4to them 1there is]; my flesh from them.

9:13  Ephraim, in which manner I saw, [3as 4game 1rendered 2their children]; to lead out [2for 3piercing 1their children].

9:14  Give to them, O lord! What will you give to them? Give to them a womb being childless and [2breasts 1dry]!

9:15  All their evils are in Gilgal, for there I detested them. Because of the evils of their practices [3out of 4my house 1I will cast 2them]. No way shall I proceed to love them. All their rulers resist persuasion.

9:16  Ephraim toiled, his roots were dried, [3fruit 4any longer 1in no way 2should he bear]; therefore if they should bear, I shall kill the desires of their bellies.

9:17  [2shall thrust them away 1God], for they hearkened not to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.