Hosea 9

The Lord Will Punish Israel

1 Rejoice not, O Israel!
Exult not like the peoples;
e for you have played the whore, forsaking your God.
f You have loved a prostitute's wages
on all threshing floors.
 2 g Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them,
and g the new wine shall fail them.
 3 They shall not remain in h the land of the Lord,
but i Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
and j they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

4 k They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the Lord,
l and their sacrifices shall not please him.
It shall be like m mourners' bread to them;
all who eat of it shall be defiled;
for their bread shall be for their hunger only;
n it shall not come to the house of the Lord.

5 o What will you do on the day of the appointed festival,
and on the day of the feast of the Lord?
 6 For behold, they are going away from destruction;
but p Egypt shall gather them;
Memphis shall bury them.
Nettles shall possess q their precious things of silver;
r thorns shall be in their tents.

7 s The days of punishment have come;
the days of recompense have come;
Israel shall know it.
t The prophet is a fool;
the man of the spirit is mad,
because of your great iniquity
and great hatred.
 8 The prophet is u the watchman of Ephraim with my God;
yet v a fowler's snare is on all his ways,
and hatred in the house of his God.
 9 w They have deeply corrupted themselves
as x in the days of Gibeah:
w he will remember their iniquity;
he will punish their sins.

10 Like grapes in the wilderness,
y I found Israel.
Like the first fruit on the fig tree
in its first season,
I saw your fathers.
But z they came to Baal-peor
and a consecrated themselves to the thing of shame,
and b became detestable like the thing they loved.
 11 Ephraim's c glory shall fly away like a bird -
d no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
 12 e Even if they bring up children,
I will bereave them till none is left.
f Woe to them
when g I depart from them!
 13 Ephraim, h as I have seen, was like a young palm 1 planted in a meadow;
but e Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter. 2
14 Give them, O Lord -
what will you give?
Give them i a miscarrying womb
and dry breasts.

15 Every evil of theirs is in j Gilgal;
there I began to hate them.
Because of the wickedness of their deeds
I will drive them out of my house.
I will love them no more;
all k their princes are l rebels.

16 Ephraim is stricken;
m their root is dried up;
they shall bear no fruit.
Even n though they give birth,
e I will put their beloved children to death.
 17 o My God will reject them
because they have not listened to him;
p they shall be wanderers among the nations.

  1. Cross References
    Hosea 1:2
    When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, "Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.
  2. Cross References
    Hosea 2:5
    For their mother has played the whore; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.
    Jeremiah 44:17
    But we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster.
  3. Cross References
    Hosea 2:9
    Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and I will take away my wool and my flax, which were to cover her nakedness.
  4. Cross References
    Hosea 2:9
    Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and I will take away my wool and my flax, which were to cover her nakedness.
  5. Cross References
    Jeremiah 2:7
    And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in, you defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination.
    Jeremiah 16:18
    But first I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.
    Leviticus 25:23
    The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me.
  6. Cross References
    Hosea 8:13
    As for my sacrificial offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the Lord does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.
  7. Cross References
    Ezekiel 4:13
    And the Lord said, "Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.
    Daniel 1:8
    But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.
  8. Cross References
    Hosea 3:4
    For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or household gods.
  9. Cross References
    Hosea 8:13
    As for my sacrificial offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the Lord does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.
  10. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 26:14
    I have not eaten of the tithe while I was mourning, or removed any of it while I was unclean, or offered any of it to the dead. I have obeyed the voice of the Lord my God. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.
    Ezekiel 24:17
    Sigh, but not aloud; make no mourning for the dead. Bind on your turban, and put your shoes on your feet; do not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
  11. Cross References
    Haggai 2:13
    Then Haggai said, "If someone who is unclean by contact with a dead body touches any of these, does it become unclean?" The priests answered and said, "It does become unclean.
  12. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:3
    What will you do on the day of punishment, in the ruin that will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?
  13. Cross References
    Hosea 8:13
    As for my sacrificial offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the Lord does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.
  14. Cross References
    Hosea 10:8
    The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. Thorn and thistle shall grow up on their altars, and they shall say to the mountains, "Cover us," and to the hills, "Fall on us.
    Isaiah 2:20
    In that day mankind will cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats.
  15. Cross References
    Hosea 10:8
    The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. Thorn and thistle shall grow up on their altars, and they shall say to the mountains, "Cover us," and to the hills, "Fall on us.
  16. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:3
    What will you do on the day of punishment, in the ruin that will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?
  17. Cross References
    Ezekiel 13:3
    Thus says the Lord God, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
  18. Cross References
    Ezekiel 3:17
    Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.
  19. Cross References
    Psalms 91:3
    For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.
    Hosea 5:1
    Hear this, O priests! Pay attention, O house of Israel! Give ear, O house of the king! For the judgment is for you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor.
  20. Cross References
    Hosea 5:2
    And the revolters have gone deep into slaughter, but I will discipline all of them.
  21. Cross References
    Hosea 5:2
    And the revolters have gone deep into slaughter, but I will discipline all of them.
  22. Cross References
    Hosea 10:9
    From the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, O Israel; there they have continued. Shall not the war against the unjust overtake them in Gibeah?
    Judges 19:22
    As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, worthless fellows, surrounded the house, beating on the door. And they said to the old man, the master of the house, "Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him.
  23. Cross References
    Psalms 80:8
    You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.
    Isaiah 5:1
    Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
  24. Cross References
    Numbers 25:3
    So Israel yoked himself to Baal of Peor. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.
    Psalms 106:28
    Then they yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
  25. Cross References
    Hosea 4:14
    I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go aside with prostitutes and sacrifice with cult prostitutes, and a people without understanding shall come to ruin.
  26. Cross References
    Romans 1:28 - 29
    And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
  27. Cross References
    Hosea 10:5
    The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf of Beth-aven. Its people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests - those who rejoiced over it and over its glory - for it has departed from them.
    Hosea 4:7
    The more they increased, the more they sinned against me; I will change their glory into shame.
  28. Cross References
    Isaiah 26:18
    We were pregnant, we writhed, but we have given birth to wind. We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth, and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.
  29. Cross References
    Hosea 13:16
    Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.
  30. Cross References
    Hosea 7:13
    Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me.
  31. Cross References
    Hosea 5:6
    With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the Lord, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.
    1 Samuel 28:15 - 16
    Then Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?" Saul answered, "I am in great distress, for the Philistines are warring against me, and God has turned away from me and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams. Therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do.
    Ezekiel 10:18
    Then the glory of the Lord went out from the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.
  32. Cross References
    Ezekiel 27:3
    And say to Tyre, who dwells at the entrances to the sea, merchant of the peoples to many coastlands, thus says the Lord God : "O Tyre, you have said, 'I am perfect in beauty.
  33. Cross References
    Hosea 9:12
    Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them!
  34. Cross References
    Luke 23:29
    For behold, the days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!
  35. Cross References
    Hosea 4:15
    Though you play the whore, O Israel, let not Judah become guilty. Enter not into Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-aven, and swear not, "As the Lord lives.
    Hosea 12:11
    If there is iniquity in Gilead, they shall surely come to nothing: in Gilgal they sacrifice bulls; their altars also are like stone heaps on the furrows of the field.
  36. Cross References
    Hosea 8:4
    They made kings, but not through me. They set up princes, but I knew it not. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction.
  37. Cross References
    Hosea 5:2
    And the revolters have gone deep into slaughter, but I will discipline all of them.
  38. Cross References
    Hosea 9:11
    Ephraim's glory shall fly away like a bird - no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
  39. Cross References
    Hosea 9:12 - 13
    Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them!
  40. Cross References
    Hosea 9:12
    Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them!
  41. Cross References
    Hosea 8:5
    I have spurned your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?
  42. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:64 - 65
    And the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
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