Hos 9 | NASB2020 | STEP | Do not rejoice , Israel , with jubilation like the nations ! For you have been unfaithful , abandoning your God . You have loved the earnings of unfaithfulness on every threshing floor .

‏ Hosea 9

Ephraim Punished

1 ^aDo not rejoice, Israel, ^{▼▼Lit to}with jubilation like the ^{▼▼Lit peoples}nations!
For you have ^dbeen unfaithful, ^{▼▼Lit away from your God}abandoning your God.
You have loved the earnings of unfaithfulness 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,
ⁿNor will ^{▼▼Or they offer to Him their}their sacrifices please Him.
Their bread will be to them like ^{▼▼Lit bread of mourning}mourners’ bread;
All who eat it will be ^qdefiled,
Because their bread will be for ^{▼▼Lit their soul}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 be gone because of destruction;
Egypt will gather them together, ^uMemphis will bury them.
Weeds will take possession of 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 this}Let Israel know this!
The prophet is a ^zfool,
The ^{▼▼Lit man of the spirit}inspired person is ^abinsane,
Because of the grossness of your ^acwrongdoing,
And because your ^{▼▼Or persecution}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 ^{▼▼Or persecution}hostility in the house of his God.
9 They are ^afdeeply depraved
As in the days of ^agGibeah;
He will ^ahremember their guilt,
He will punish their sins.

10 I found Israel like ^aigrapes in the wilderness;
I saw your forefathers as the ^ajearliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season.
But they came to ^akBaal-peor and devoted themselves to ^{▼▼I.e., Baal} ^amshame,
And they became as ^andetestable as that which they loved.
11 As for Ephraim, their ^aoglory 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 of their children ^{▼▼Lit without a person}until not a person is left.
Yes, ^aqwoe to them indeed when I depart from them!
13 Ephraim, as I have seen,
Is planted in a pasture like ^arTyre;
But Ephraim is going to bring out his children for slaughter.
14 Give to them, Lord --what will You give?
Give them a ^asmiscarrying womb and dried-up breasts.

15 All their evil is at ^atGilgal;
Indeed, I came to hate them there!
Because of the ^auwickedness of their deeds
I will drive them out of My house!
I will no longer love them;
All their leaders are ^avrebels.
16 ^awEphraim is stricken, their root is dried up,
They will produce ^axno fruit.
Even though they give birth to children,
I will put to death the ^ayprecious ones of their womb.
17 My God will reject them
Because they have ^aznot listened to Him;
And they will be ^bawanderers among the nations.