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Hosea 9

Ephraim Punished

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 aDo not rejoice, O Israel,  1with exultation like the  2nations! For you have  bplayed the harlot,  3forsaking your God. You have loved harlots' earnings on  4every threshing floor.

2

Threshing floor and wine press will  anot feed them, And the new wine will fail  1them.

3

They will not remain in  athe LORD'S land, But Ephraim will return to  bEgypt, And in  cAssyria they will eat  dunclean food.

4

They will not pour out drink offerings of  awine to the LORD,  bTheir sacrifices will not please Him. Their bread will  1be like  2mourners' bread; All who eat of it will be  cdefiled, For their bread will be for  3themselves alone; It will not enter the house of the LORD.

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 aWhat will you do on the day of the appointed festival And on the day of the  bfeast of the LORD?

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For behold, they will go because of destruction; Egypt will gather them up,  aMemphis will bury them. Weeds will take over their treasures of silver;  bThorns will be in their tents.

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The days of  apunishment have come, The days of  bretribution have come;  1Let Israel know this! The prophet is a  cfool, The  2inspired man is  ddemented, Because of the grossness of your  einiquity, And because your hostility is so great.

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Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet; Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways, And there is only hostility in the house of his God.

9

They have gone  adeep  1in depravity As in the days of  bGibeah; He will  cremember their iniquity, He will punish their sins.

10

I found Israel like  agrapes in the wilderness; I saw your forefathers as the  bearliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season. But they came to  cBaal-peor and devoted themselves to  1 dshame, And they became as  edetestable as that which they loved.

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As for Ephraim, their  aglory will fly away like a bird-- No birth, no pregnancy and no conception!

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Though they bring up their children, Yet I will bereave them  1until not a man is left. Yes,  awoe to them indeed when I depart from them!

13

Ephraim, as I have seen, Is planted in a pleasant meadow like  aTyre; But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.

14

Give them, O LORD--what will You give? Give them a  amiscarrying womb and dry breasts.

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All their evil is at  aGilgal; Indeed, I came to hate them there! Because of the  bwickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of My house! I will love them no more; All their princes are  crebels.

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 aEphraim is stricken, their root is dried up, They will bear  bno fruit. Even though they bear children, I will slay the  cprecious ones of their womb.

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My God will cast them away Because they have  anot listened to Him; And they will be  bwanderers among the nations.



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