New American Standard Bible 1995

Hosea 9:1-9

1 1Do not rejoice, O Israel, 2with exultation like the 3nations! For you have 4played the harlot, 5forsaking your God. You have loved harlots’ earnings on 6every threshing floor.2Threshing floor and wine press will 7not feed them, And the new wine will fail 8them.3They will not remain in 9the Lord’s land, But Ephraim will return to 10Egypt, And in 11Assyria they will eat 12unclean food.4They will not pour out drink offerings of 13wine to the Lord, 14Their sacrifices will not please Him. Their bread will 15be like 16mourners’ bread; All who eat of it will be 17defiled, For their bread will be for 18themselves alone; It will not enter the house of the Lord.5 19What will you do on the day of the appointed festival And on the day of the 20feast of the Lord?6For behold, they will go because of destruction; Egypt will gather them up, 21Memphis will bury them. Weeds will take over their treasures of silver; 22Thorns will be in their tents.

7The days of 23punishment have come, The days of 24retribution have come; 25Let Israel know this! The prophet is a 26fool, The 27inspired man is 28demented, Because of the grossness of your 29iniquity, And because your hostility is so great.8Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet; Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways, And there is only hostility in the house of his God.9They have gone 30deep 31in depravity As in the days of 32Gibeah; He will 33remember their iniquity, He will punish their sins.

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Notes

1. Hosea 9:1 Is 22:12, 13; Hos 10:5 ↩
2. Hosea 9:1 Lit to ↩
3. Hosea 9:1 Lit peoples ↩
4. Hosea 9:1 Hos 4:12 ↩
5. Hosea 9:1 Lit away from your God ↩
6. Hosea 9:1 Lit all threshing floors of grain ↩
7. Hosea 9:2 Hos 2:9 ↩
8. Hosea 9:2 Lit her ↩
9. Hosea 9:3 Lev 25:23; Jer 2:7 ↩
10. Hosea 9:3 Hos 7:16; 8:13 ↩
11. Hosea 9:3 Hos 7:11 ↩
12. Hosea 9:3 Ezek 4:13 ↩
13. Hosea 9:4 Ex 29:40 ↩
14. Hosea 9:4 Jer 6:20; Hos 8:13 ↩
15. Hosea 9:4 Lit be to them ↩
16. Hosea 9:4 Or bread of misfortune ↩
17. Hosea 9:4 Hag 2:13, 14 ↩
18. Hosea 9:4 Lit their appetite ↩
19. Hosea 9:5 Is 10:3; Jer 5:31 ↩
20. Hosea 9:5 Hos 2:11; Joel 1:13 ↩
21. Hosea 9:6 Is 19:13; Jer 2:16; 44:1; 46:14, 19; Ezek 30:13, 16 ↩
22. Hosea 9:6 Is 5:6; 7:23; Hos 10:8 ↩
23. Hosea 9:7 Is 10:3; Jer 10:15; Mic 7:4; Luke 21:22 ↩
24. Hosea 9:7 Is 34:8; Jer 16:18; 25:14 ↩
25. Hosea 9:7 Or Israel will know it ↩
26. Hosea 9:7 Lam 2:14; Ezek 13:3, 10 ↩
27. Hosea 9:7 Lit man of the spirit ↩
28. Hosea 9:7 Is 44:25 ↩
29. Hosea 9:7 Ezek 14:9, 10 ↩
30. Hosea 9:9 Is 31:6 ↩
31. Hosea 9:9 Lit they have corrupted ↩
32. Hosea 9:9 Judg 19:12, 16-30; Hos 10:9 ↩
33. Hosea 9:9 Hos 7:2; 8:13 ↩

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