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Hosea 9

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The Distress and Captivity of Israel for Their Sins

 
Don't rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations;for you were unfaithful to your God.You love the wages of a prostitute at every grainthreshing floor. +
The threshing floor and the wine press won't feed them,and the new wine will fail her. +
They won't dwell in The LORD's land;but Ephraim will return to Egypt,and they will eat unclean food in Assyria. +
They won't pour out wine offerings to The LORD,neither will they be pleasing to him.Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;all who eat of it will be polluted;for their bread will be for their appetite.It will not come into The LORD's house. +
What will you do in the day of solemn assembly,and in the day of the feast of The LORD? +
For, behold, they have gone away from destruction.Egypt will gather them up.Memphis will bury them.Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver.Thorns will be in their tents. +
The days of visitation have come.The days of reckoning have come.Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool,and the man who is inspired to be insane,because of the abundance of your sins,and because your hostility is great. +
A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God.A fowler's snare is on all of his paths,and hostility in the house of his God. +
They have deeply corrupted themselves,as in the days of Gibeah.He will remember their iniquity.He will punish them for their sins. +
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I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness.I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season;but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing,and became abominable like that which they loved. +
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As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird.There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception. +
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Though they bring up their children,yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left.Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them! +
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I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place;but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer. +
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Give them-The LORD what will you give?Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. +
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"All their wickedness is in Gilgal;for there I hated them.Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house!I will love them no more.All their princes are rebels. +
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Ephraim is struck.Their root has dried up.They will bear no fruit.Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb." +
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My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him;and they will be wanderers among the nations. +

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