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Hosea 9 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Ephraim Punished

9 ^(A)Do not rejoice, Israel, ^[a]with jubilation like the ^[b]nations!
For you have ^(B)been unfaithful, ^[c]abandoning your God.
You have loved the earnings of unfaithfulness on ^[d]every threshing floor.
²Threshing floor and wine press will ^(C)not feed them,
And the new wine will fail ^[e]them.
³They will not remain in ^(D)the Lord’s land,
But Ephraim will return to ^(E)Egypt,
And in ^(F)Assyria they will eat ^(G)unclean food.
⁴They will not pour out drink offerings of ^(H)wine to the Lord,
^(I)Nor will ^[f]their sacrifices please Him.
Their bread will be to them like ^[g]mourners’ bread;
All who eat it will be ^(J)defiled,
Because their bread will be for ^[h]themselves alone;
It will not enter the house of the Lord.
⁵^(K)What will you do on the day of the appointed festival
And on the day of the ^(L)feast of the Lord?
⁶For behold, they will be gone because of destruction;
Egypt will gather them together, ^(M)Memphis will bury them.
Weeds will take possession of their treasures of silver;
^(N)Thorns will be in their tents.

⁷The days of ^(O)punishment have come,
The days of ^(P)retribution have come;
^[i]Let Israel know this!
The prophet is a ^(Q)fool,
The ^[j]inspired person is ^(R)insane,
Because of the grossness of your ^(S)wrongdoing,
And because your ^[k]hostility is so great.
⁸Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet;
Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways,
And there is only ^[l]hostility in the house of his God.
⁹They are ^(T)deeply depraved
As in the days of ^(U)Gibeah;
He will ^(V)remember their guilt,
He will punish their sins.

¹⁰I found Israel like ^(W)grapes in the wilderness;
I saw your forefathers as the ^(X)earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season.
But they came to ^(Y)Baal-peor and devoted themselves to ^[m]^(Z)shame,
And they became as ^(AA)detestable as that which they loved.
¹¹As for Ephraim, their ^(AB)glory will fly away like a bird—
No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!
¹²Though they bring up their children,
Yet I will bereave them of their children ^[n]until not a person is left.
Yes, ^(AC)woe to them indeed when I depart from them!
¹³Ephraim, as I have seen,
Is planted in a pasture like ^(AD)Tyre;
But Ephraim is going to bring out his children for slaughter.
¹⁴Give to them, Lord—what will You give?
Give them a ^(AE)miscarrying womb and dried-up breasts.

¹⁵All their evil is at ^(AF)Gilgal;
Indeed, I came to hate them there!
Because of the ^(AG)wickedness of their deeds
I will drive them out of My house!
I will no longer love them;
All their leaders are ^(AH)rebels.
¹⁶^(AI)Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up,
They will produce ^(AJ)no fruit.
Even though they give birth to children,
I will put to death the ^(AK)precious ones of their womb.
¹⁷My God will reject them
Because they have ^(AL)not listened to Him;
And they will be ^(AM)wanderers among the nations.

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