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LSV HOS Chapter 9

9 “Do not rejoice, O Israel, do not be joyful like the peoples,
For you have gone whoring from your God,
You have loved a wage near all floors of grain. 2 Floor and winepress do not feed them,
And new wine fails in her, 3 They do not abide in the land of YHWH,
And Ephraim has turned back [to] Egypt,
And they eat an unclean thing in Asshur. 4 They do not pour out wine to YHWH,
Nor are they sweet to Him,
Their sacrifices [are] as bread of mourners to them,
All eating it are unclean: For their bread [is] for themselves,
It does not come into the house of YHWH. 5 What do you do at the day appointed? And at the day of YHWH’s festival? 6 For behold, they have gone because of destruction,
Egypt gathers them, Moph buries them,
The desirable things of their silver,
Nettles possess them—a thorn [is] in their tents. 7 The days of inspection have come in,
The days of repayment have come in, Israel knows! The prophet [is] a fool,
Mad [is] the man of the spirit,
Because of the abundance of your iniquity,
And great [is] the hatred. 8 Ephraim is looking [away] from My God,
The prophet! A snare of a fowler [is] over all his ways,
Hatred [is] in the house of his God. 9 They have gone deep—have done corruptly,
As [in] the days of Gibeah,
He remembers their iniquity, He inspects their sins. 10 As grapes in a wilderness I found Israel,
As the first-fruit in a fig tree, at its beginning, I have seen your fathers,
They have gone in [to] Ba‘al-Peor,
And are separated to a shameful thing,
And have become abominable like their love. 11 Ephraim [is] as a bird, their glory flies away, without birth, and without womb, and without conception. 12 For though they nourish their sons, I have made them childless—without man,
Surely also, woe to them when I turn aside from them. 13 Ephraim! When I have looked to the rock,
Is planted in comeliness,
And Ephraim [is] to bring out his sons to a slayer. 14 Give to them, YHWH—what do You give? Give to them miscarrying womb, and dry breasts. 15 All their evil [is] in Gilgal,
Surely there I have hated them,
Because of the evil of their doings,
Out of My house I drive them,
I no longer love them,
All their heads [are] apostates. 16 Ephraim has been struck,
Their root has dried up, they do not yield fruit,
Indeed, though they bring forth,
I have put to death the desired of their womb. 17 My God rejects them,
Because they have not listened to Him,
And they are wanderers among nations!”

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