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UST HOS Chapter 9

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9 You people of Israel, do not celebrate

joyfully the way other peoples do!

I say this because you have been unfaithful to your God.

You have loved the gifts that you thought were payments from your idols

at every threshing floor where people thresh grain.

2 Soon the people will not have enough grain or wine,

and the new wine will be gone.

3 The people of Israel will not continue to live in the land that belongs to Yahweh.

Instead, the people of Ephraim will go back to being slaves as they were in Egypt,

and in Assyria they will eat food that God has forbidden them to eat.

4 They will not pour out wine offerings to Yahweh,

and their sacrifices will not please him.

Their sacrifices will be like the food that is in the house with a dead body;

everyone who eats that food will be unacceptable to God,

because they will eat that food only for themselves;

they will not bring it into Yahweh’s temple.

5 You will not be able to celebrate the feasts that Yahweh appointed

or the festivals that honor Yahweh.

6 Look! Even if some of them escape when the Assyrians destroy their towns,

people in Egypt will capture them,

and people in the Egyptian capital city of Memphis will bury them.

Weeds will grow over the silver objects that they treasure,

and thorns will fill their tents.

7 Now is the time for God to punish the Israelites;

now is the time for him to do to them as they deserve.

When he does, the people of Israel will know it!

You say that the prophet is a fool

and that the one whom the Spirit inspires is insane,

but that is only because you have sinned so much

and because you are very hostile toward God.

8 Prophets watch over the people of Ephraim because my God told them to do so,

but people set traps for them everywhere they go.

People are hostile to them, even in the temple of their God.

9 The people have become very grievously sinful,

just as the people of Gibeah were long ago.

God will not forget how wickedly they have acted;

he will punish them for their sins.

10 Yahweh says, “When I chose Israel,

I was as pleased with them as someone who finds grapes in a desert.

When I first looked at your ancestors,

they were as delightful as the very first figs that grow on a young fig tree.

But then they started worshiping the Baal of Peor.

They gave themselves completely to that disgusting idol,

and they became as disgusting as the idol that they loved.

11 What the people of Ephraim are most proud of will quickly disappear.

No one will conceive, carry, or give birth to children.

12 Even if they do raise children,

I will take away every one of them so that none survive.

Yes, indeed, it will be terrible for them

when I abandon them!

13 I have decreed for Ephraim just as I have decreed for Tyre,

that city in its beautiful place,

that the people of Ephraim will bring out their own children

for their enemies to slaughter.”

14 Hosea says, “So Yahweh, give to these people—but what can I ask you to give them?

Give them miscarriages

and no way to nurse babies.”

15 Yahweh says, “Because of all of the wicked things that my people have done at Gilgal,

that is where I started to hate them.

Because of all of the evil things that they do,

I will drive them out of my land.

I will not love them any longer;

all of their leaders rebel against me.

16 I have struck the people of Ephraim

so that they are as infertile as grapevines that have shriveled roots and cannot produce fruit.

Even if the women do give birth,

I will kill the children whom they love.”

17 Hosea says, “The God whom I worship will reject the people of Israel

because they have not obeyed him.

Therefore, they will wander among the other nations, away from their home.”

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