Hos 9 | NASB1995 | STEP | Do not rejoice , O Israel , with exultation like the nations ! For you have played the harlot , forsaking your God . You have loved harlots ’ earnings on every threshing floor .

Hosea 9

Ephraim Punished

1 ^aDo not rejoice, O Israel, ^{▼▼ Lit to}with exultation like the ^{▼▼ Lit peoples}nations!
For you have ^dplayed the harlot, ^{▼▼ Lit away from your God}forsaking your God.
You have loved harlots’ earnings on ^{▼▼ Lit all threshing floors of grain}every threshing floor.
2 Threshing floor and wine press will ^gnot feed them,
And the new wine will fail ^{▼▼ Lit her}them.
3 They will not remain in ⁱthe Lord’s land,
But Ephraim will return to ^jEgypt,
And in ^kAssyria they will eat ^lunclean food.
4 They will not pour out drink offerings of ^mwine to the Lord,
ⁿTheir sacrifices will not please Him.
Their bread will ^{▼▼ Lit be to them} be like ^{▼▼ Or bread of misfortune}mourners’ bread;
All who eat of it will be ^qdefiled,
For their bread will be for ^{▼▼ Lit their appetite}themselves alone;
It will not enter the house of the Lord.
5 ^sWhat will you do on the day of the appointed festival
And on the day of the ^tfeast of the Lord?
6 For behold, they will go because of destruction;
Egypt will gather them up, ^uMemphis will bury them.
Weeds will take over their treasures of silver;
^vThorns will be in their tents.

7 The days of ^wpunishment have come,
The days of ^xretribution have come;
^{▼▼ Or Israel will know it}Let Israel know this!
The prophet is a ^zfool,
The ^{▼▼ Lit man of the spirit}inspired man is ^abdemented,
Because of the grossness of your ^aciniquity,
And because your hostility is so great.
8 Ephraim 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.
9 They have gone ^addeep ^{▼▼ Lit they have corrupted}in depravity
As in the days of ^afGibeah;
He will ^agremember their iniquity,
He will punish their sins.

10 I found Israel like ^ahgrapes in the wilderness;
I saw your forefathers as the ^aiearliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season.
But they came to ^ajBaal-peor and devoted themselves to ^{▼▼ I.e. Baal
,} ^alshame,
And they became as ^amdetestable as that which they loved.
11 As for Ephraim, their ^anglory will fly away like a bird—
No birth, no pregnancy and no conception!
12 Though they bring up their children,
Yet I will bereave them ^{▼▼ Lit without a man}until not a man is left.
Yes, ^apwoe to them indeed when I depart from them!
13 Ephraim, as I have seen,
Is planted in a pleasant meadow like ^aqTyre;
But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.
14 Give them, O Lord—what will You give?
Give them a ^armiscarrying womb and dry breasts.

15 All their evil is at ^asGilgal;
Indeed, I came to hate them there!
Because of the ^atwickedness of their deeds
I will drive them out of My house!
I will love them no more;
All their princes are ^aurebels.
16 ^avEphraim is stricken, their root is dried up,
They will bear ^awno fruit.
Even though they bear children,
I will slay the ^axprecious ones of their womb.
17 My God will cast them away
Because they have ^aynot listened to Him;
And they will be ^azwanderers among the nations.