Hosea 9

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¹Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor. ✦ ²The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them, and the new wine will fail her. ✦ ³They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria. ✦ ⁴They won’t pour out wine offerings to Yahweh, 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 Yahweh’s house. ✦ ⁵What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of Yahweh? ✦ ⁶For, 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. ✦ ⁷The 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. ✦ ⁸A 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. ✦ ⁹They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins. ✦ ¹⁰I 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. ✦ ¹¹As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception. ✦ ¹²Though 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! ✦ ¹³I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer. ✦ ¹⁴Give them — Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. ✦ ¹⁵“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. ✦ ¹⁶Ephraim 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.” ✦ ¹⁷My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Hos 9 ·14 Deut 28 ·8 Hos 7 ·6 Hos 4 ·6 Hos 10 ·5 Hos 8 ·5 2 Kgs 17 ·5 Hos 2 ·5

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God's relentless love for an unfaithful bride dramatizes the gospel: 'Out of Egypt I called my son' is fulfilled in Jesus, who redeems an adulterous people at his own cost.

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