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Hosea 9

9 No exultations, Israel,

no pagan shouts for you!

You have been faithless to your God;

you have loved a harlot’s hire

at every threshing-floor.

2 But threshing-floor and wine-vat fail you,

and the new wine shall disappoint you.

3 Back to Egypt Ephraim goes again,

and in Assyria they eat food unclean

(for in the Eternal’s land they shall not stay).

4 No libations to the Eternal then!

No sacrificing victims for him then!

Their food shall be like mourners’ food,

defiling all who eat it;

their food shall only be for their own table,

none can be offered in the Eternal’s house.

5 What will you do on a festival day,

on a day of the Eternal’s feast?

6 You will have gone to Assyria,

gathered in Egypt,

mustered at Memphis–

nettles covering the rare silver idols,

thorns springing in your shrines.

7 The days of punishment have come,

the days of requital.

Israel clamours,

“A prophet is a crazy fool,

a man inspired is a man insane!”–

such is the pitch of your iniquity,

the pitch of your hostility.

8 The prophet is God’s watchman,

placed over Ephraim,

and yet his paths are snared;

within the temple of his God

men are hostile to him!–

9 a depth of depravity as deep

as in the days of Gibeah.

God will remember their guilt

and punish their sin.

10 Like grapes in the wold I came on Israel;

like first-ripe figs, I viewed your fathers gladly.

But when they came to Baal-pĕor,

they devoted themselves to Baal the Infamous,

became as loathsome as the thing they loved.

11 Ephraim’s glory, ’tis gone like a bird–

no births, no mothers, no conception, any more!

Even though they beget children,

I will slay the darlings of their womb;

12 even although they bring up sons,

I will bereave them, to a man.

13 Ephraim’s sons are doomed to be a prey;

Ephraim has to lead his sons to die.

14 Give them, O Eternal – what?

wombs that miscarry,

withered breasts!

15 Their guilt lies all at Gilgal;

so there I learned to hate them!

For their evil practices

I drive them from my house;

no longer will I love them–

their rulers are all rebels.

12c Woe betide them when I look away from them!

16 Ephraim is blighted,

withered at the root;

Ephraim the Fruitful bears no fruit.

17 Their God shall cast them off,

for they would not obey him;

they shall be vagabonds among the nations.

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