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ULT HOS Chapter 9

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9 Do not rejoice, O Israel,

with joy like the peoples.

For you have played the harlot,

forsaking your God.

You have loved the wages of a harlot

on all the threshing floors.

2 The threshing floor and the winepress will not feed them;

and the new wine will fail them.

3 They will not remain in the land of Yahweh;

instead, Ephraim will return to Egypt,

and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.

4 They will not pour out wine offerings to Yahweh,

neither will their sacrifices be pleasing to him.

It will be like the bread of mourners to them:

all who eat it will be defiled.

For their bread will be for themselves only;

it will not come into the house of Yahweh.

5 What will you do on the day of an appointed festival,

and on the day of a festival for Yahweh?

6 For behold, they go away from destruction,

but Egypt will gather them,

Memphis will bury them.

As for their treasures of silver—

sharp briers will possess them,

thorns will be in their tents.

7 The days of punishment have come;

the days of retribution have come.

Let Israel know these things.

The prophet is a fool,

the man of the spirit is insane,

because of your great iniquity

and great hostility.

8 The prophet is the watchman with my God over Ephraim.

But the snare of a fowler is on all of his ways,

and hostility in the house of his God.

9 They have deeply corrupted themselves

as in the days of Gibeah.

He will remember their iniquity,

he will punish their sins.

10 Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel.

Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your fathers.

But they came to Baal Peor,

and they devoted themselves to that shameful thing.

They became detestable like that which they loved.

11 As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird--

no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.

12 Even if they bring up their children,

I will bereave them until no one is left.

Yes, woe to them indeed when I turn away from them!

13 Ephraim, as I have seen, is like Tyre planted in a meadow;

but Ephraim will bring out his children to him who slaughters.”

14 Give them, O Yahweh—what will you give?

Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

15 “All their evil is in Gilgal,

indeed I came to hate them there.

Because of the wickedness of their deeds,

I will drive them out of my house.

I will love them no more;

all their princes are rebels.

16 Ephraim is stricken;

their root is dried up;

they will bear no fruit.

Even if they give birth,

I will kill the precious ones of their womb.”

17 My God will reject them

because they have not listened to him.

They will become wanderers among the nations.

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