AFV2020 - Hosea - 9

9:1  O Israel, rejoice not for joy, like the people, for you have gone whoring away from your God; you have loved a reward upon every grain floor.

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

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.

9:4  They shall not pour wine to the LORD, nor shall they be pleasing to Him. Their sacrifices shall be like the bread of sorrows to them; all who eat of them shall be defiled, for their bread is for their appetite, it shall not come into the house of the LORD.

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

9:6  For lo, they have left because of destruction. Egypt shall gather them up; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess the desirable things of their silver; thorns shall be in their tents.

9:7  The days of her judgment have come; the days of vengeance have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is insane because of the multitude of your iniquity and your great hatred.

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

9:9  They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in days of Gibeah. Therefore He will remember their iniquity; He will punish them for their sins.

9:10  "I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruit in the fig tree at her first season. But they went to Baal Peor and set themselves apart to a shameful thing; and they became abominations, like the things they loved.

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

9:12  Though they bring up their children, yet I will make them childless, without a man. Yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

9:13  Ephraim, when I looked toward Tyre, was planted in a pleasant place. But Ephraim shall bring out his children to the murderer."

9:14  Give them, O LORD; what will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

9:15  "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 love them no more; all their rulers are revolters.

9:16  Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit. Yea, though they bear, yet I will slay the beloved fruit of their womb."

9:17  My God shall cast them away because they did not hearken to Him. And they shall be wanderers among the nations.