Hosea 9 — ENGLXXUP

9 Verse 1 Rejoice not, O Israel, neither make merry, as other nations: for thou hast gone a-whoring from thy God; thou hast loved gifts upon every threshing floor. ^{Verse 2} The threshing floor and winepress knew them not, and the wine disappointed them. ^{Verse 3} They dwelt not in the Lord’s land: Ephraim dwelt in Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things among the Assyrians. ^{Verse 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 for their soul shall not enter into the house of the Lord. ^{Verse 5} What will ye do in the day of the general assembly, and in the day of the feast of the Lord? ^{Verse 6} Therefore, behold, they go forth from the trouble of Egypt, and Memphis shall receive them, and Machmas shall bury them: as for their silver, destruction shall inherit it; thorns shall be in their tents. ^{Verse 7} The days of vengeance are come, the days of thy recompense are come; and Israel shall be afflicted as the prophet that is mad, as a man deranged: by reason of the multitude of thine iniquities thy madness has abounded. ^{Verse 8} The watchman of Ephraim was with God: the prophet is a crooked snare in all his ways: they have established madness in the house of God. ^{Verse 9} They have corrupted themselves according to the days of the hill: he will remember their iniquities, he will take vengeance on their sins. ^{Verse 10} I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness, and I saw their fathers as an early watchman in a fig tree: they went in to Baal-peor, and were shamefully estranged, and the abominable became as the beloved. ^{Verse 11} Ephraim has flown away as a bird; their glories from the birth, and the travail, and the conception. ^{Verse 12} For even if they should rear their children, yet shall they be utterly bereaved: wherefore also there is woe to them, though my flesh is of them. ^{Verse 13} Ephraim, even as I saw, gave their children for a prey; yea, Ephraim was ready to bring out his children to slaughter. ^{Verse 14} Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give them? a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts. ^{Verse 15} All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their practices, I will cast them out of my house, I will not love them anymore: all their princes are disobedient. ^{Verse 16} Ephraim is sick, he is dried up at his roots, he shall in nowise anymore bear fruit: wherefore even if they should beget children, I will kill the desired fruit of their womb. ^{Verse 17} God shall reject them, because they have not hearkened to him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.