Hos 9 | EngLXX | STEP | Rejoice not, O Israel, neither make merry, as other nations: for you have gone a-whoring from your God; you have loved gifts upon every threshing floor.

Hosea 9

1 Rejoice not, O Israel, neither make merry, asother nations: for you have gone a-whoring from your God; you have loved gifts upon every threshing floor. 2 The threshing floor and wine-press knew them not, and the wine disappointed them. 3 They lived not in the Lord's land: Ephraim lived in Egypt, and they shall eat uncleanthings among the Assyrians. 4 They have not offered wine to the Lord, neither have their sacrifices been sweet to him,but as the bread of mourning to them; all that eat them shall be defiled; for their bread fortheir soul shall not enter into the house of the Lord. 5 What will you⌃ do in the day of the general assembly, and in the day of the feast of theLord? 6 Therefore, behold, they go forth from the trouble of Egypt, and Memphis shall receivethem, and Machmas shall bury them:as for their silver, destruction shall inherit it; thornsshall be in their tents. 7 The days of vengeance are come, the days of your recompense are come; and Israel shallbe afflicted as the prophet that is mad, as a man deranged: by reason of the multitude of your iniquitiesyour madness has abounded. 8 The watchman of Ephraimwas with God: the prophet is a crooked snare in all his ways: they have established madnessin the house of God. 9 They have corrupted themselves according to the days of the hill: he will remember theiriniquities, he will take vengeance on their sins. 10 I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness, and I saw their fathers as an early watchmanin a fig tree: they went in to Beel-phegor, and were shamefully estranged, and the abominable became asthe beloved. 11 Ephraim has flown away as a bird; their glories from the birth, and the travail, andthe conception. 12 For even if they should rear their children, yet shall they be utterly bereaved: whereforealso there is woe to them,though my flesh is of them. 13 Ephraim,even as I saw, gave their children for a prey; yes, Ephraimwas ready to bring out his children to slaughter. 14 Give them, O Lord: what will you give them? a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts. 15 All their wickedness is in Galgal: for there I hated them: because of the wickednessof their practices, I will cast them out of my house, I will not love them any more: all their princesare disobedient. 16 Ephraim is sick, he is dried up at his roots, he shall in no wise any more bear fruit:wherefore even if they should begetchildren, I will kill the desiredfruit of their womb. 17 God shall reject them, because they have not hearkened to him: and they shall be wanderersamong the nations.