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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