Hosea Chapter Nine

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.

2    The 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 they shall eat
    unclean things in Assyria.

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.

5    What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?

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.

7    The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence 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.

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.

9    They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah:   therefore he will remember their
    iniquity, he will visit their sins.

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 Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame;  and their abominations were
    according as they loved.

11    As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the 
    conception.

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!

13    Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place:  but Ephraim shall bring forth his children
    to the murderer.

14    Give them, O LORD:  what wilt thou give?  give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

15    All their wickedness is in Gilgal:  for there I hated them:  for the wickedness of their doing I will drive them
    out of mine house, I will love them no more:  all their princes are revolters.

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.

17    My God will cast them away because they did not hearken unto him:  and they shall be wanderers among the nations.


    Hosea Chapter Nine - KJV