Hosea

9 1 REJOICE ^anot, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a ^breward ¹upon every cornfloor.

2 The ^cfloor and the ²winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.

3 They shall not dwell in ^dthe LORD's land; but Ephraim ^eshall return to Egypt, and ^fthey shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

4 ^gThey shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, ^hneither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the ⁱbread of mourners; ^jall that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their ^kbread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.

5 ^lWhat will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?

6 For, lo, ^mthey are gone because of ³destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, ⁿMemphis shall bury them: ⁴the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their ^*tabernacles.

7 ^oThe days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: ^pthe prophet is a fool, the ⁵spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

8 The ^qwatchman of Ephraim was with my God: but ^rthe prophet is a snare of a ^*fowler in all his ways, and hatred ⁶in the house of his God.

9 They have ^sdeeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of ^tGibeah: therefore ^uhe will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

10 ^vI found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they ^wwent to Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and ^xtheir abominations were according as they ^yloved.

11 As for Ephraim, ^ztheir glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

12 Though they bring up their children, yet ^awill I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them ^bwhen I depart from them!

13 Ephraim, as I saw ^cTyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim ^dshall bring forth his children to the murderer.

14 ^eGive them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a ⁷miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

15 All their wickedness ^fis in Gilgal: for there I hated them: ^gfor the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine ^hhouse, I will love them no more: ⁱall their princes are revolters.

16 ^jEphraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even ⁸the beloved fruit of their womb.

17 My God ^kwill cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.