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Hosea 9 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 9
Judgment of Israel’s Sin
The Days of Judgment Have Come
1 Do not rejoice, O Israel, with joy like other peoples,
​​For you have played the harlot against your God.
​​You have made love for hire on every threshing floor.
2 ​​The threshing floor and the winepress
​​Shall not feed them,
​​And the new wine shall fail in her.
​
3 ​​They shall not dwell in the LORD’s land,
​​But Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
​​And shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
4 ​​They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD,
​​Nor shall their sacrifices be pleasing to Him.
​​It shall be like bread of mourners to them;
​​All who eat it shall be defiled.
​​For their bread shall be for their own life;
​​It shall not come into the house of the LORD.
​
5 ​​What will you do in the appointed day,
​​And in the day of the feast of the LORD?
6 ​​For indeed they are gone because of destruction.
​​Egypt shall gather them up;
​​Memphis shall bury them.
​​Nettles shall possess their valuables of silver;
​​Thorns shall be in their tents.
​
7 ​​The days of punishment have come;
​​The days of recompense have come.
​​Israel knows!
​​The prophet is a fool,
​​The spiritual man is insane,
​​Because of the greatness of your iniquity and great enmity.
8 ​​The watchman of Ephraim is with my God;
​​But the prophet is a fowler’s[fn] snare in all his ways—
​​Enmity in the house of his God.
9 ​​They are deeply corrupted,
​​As in the days of Gibeah.
​​He will remember their iniquity;
​​He will punish their sins.
​
10 ​​“I found Israel
​​Like grapes in the wilderness;
​​I saw your fathers
​​As the firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season.
​​But they went to Baal Peor,
​​And separated themselves to that shame;
​​They became an abomination like the thing they loved.
11 ​​As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird—
​​No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!
12 ​​Though they bring up their children,
​​Yet I will bereave them to the last man.
​​Yes, woe to them when I depart from them!
13 ​​Just as I saw Ephraim like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place,
​​So Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.”
​
14 ​​Give them, O LORD—
​​What will You give?
​​Give them a miscarrying womb
​​And dry breasts!
​
15 ​​“All their wickedness is in Gilgal,
​​For there I hated them.
​​Because of the evil of their deeds
​​I will drive them from My house;
​​I will love them no more.
​​All their princes are rebellious.
16 ​​Ephraim is stricken,
​​Their root is dried up;
​​They shall bear no fruit.
​​Yes, were they to bear children,
​​I would kill the darlings of their womb.”
​
17 ​​My God will cast them away,
​​Because they did not obey Him;
​​And they shall be wanderers among the nations.
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That is, one who catches birds in a trap or snare
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