HO-9:1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as [other] people: for

thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward

upon every cornfloor.

HO-9:2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the

new wine shall fail in her.

HO-9:3 They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim

shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean [things] in

Assyria.

HO-9:4 They shall not offer wine [offerings] to the LORD,

neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices [shall

be] unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof

shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come

into the house of the LORD.

HO-9:5 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the

feast of the LORD?

HO-9:6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt

shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant

[places] for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns

[shall be] in their tabernacles.

HO-9:7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense

are come; Israel shall know [it]: the prophet [is] a fool, the

spiritual man [is] mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and

the great hatred.

HO-9:8 The watchman of Ephraim [was] with my God: [but] the

prophet [is] a snare of a fowler in all his ways, [and] hatred

in the house of his God.

HO-9:9 They have deeply corrupted [themselves], as in the days

of Gibeah: [therefore] he will remember their iniquity, he will

visit their sins.

HO-9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your

fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time:

[but] they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto

[that] shame; and [their] abominations were according as they

loved.

HO-9:11 [As for] Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird,

 from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

HO-9:12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave

them, [that there shall] not [be] a man [left]: yea, woe also to

them when I depart from them!

HO-9:13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, [is] planted in a pleasant

place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the

murderer.

HO-9:14 Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a

miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

HO-9:15 All their wickedness [is] in Gilgal: for there I hated

them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out

of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes [are]

revolters.

HO-9:16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall

bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay

[even] the beloved [fruit] of their womb.

HO-9:17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken

unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations. 

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