Hosea 9 (NET)

Hosea 9:1¹O Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly like the nations, for you are unfaithful to your God. You love to receive a prostitute’s wages on all the floors where you thresh your grain.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Hosea 9:2²Threshing floors and wine vats will not feed the people, and new wine only deceives them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Hosea 9:3³They will not remain in the Lord ’s land. Ephraim will return to Egypt; they will eat ritually unclean food in Assyria.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Hosea 9:4⁴They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the Lord; they will not please him with their sacrifices. Their sacrifices will be like bread eaten while in mourning; all those who eat them will make themselves ritually unclean. For their bread will be only to satisfy their appetite; it will not come into the temple of the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Hosea 9:5⁵So what will you do on the festival day, on the festival days of the Lord?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Hosea 9:6⁶Look! Even if they flee from the destruction, Egypt will take hold of them, and Memphis will bury them. The weeds will inherit the silver they treasure — thorn bushes will occupy their homes.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Hosea 9:7⁷The time of judgment is about to arrive! The time of retribution is imminent! Israel will be humbled! The prophet is considered a fool — the inspired man is viewed as a madman — because of the multitude of your sins and your intense animosity.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Hosea 9:8⁸The prophet is a watchman over Ephraim on behalf of God, yet traps are laid for him along all his paths; animosity rages against him in the land of his God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Hosea 9:9⁹They have sunk deep into corruption as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their wrongdoing. He will repay them for their sins.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Hosea 9:10¹⁰When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness. I viewed your ancestors like an early fig on a fig tree in its first season. Then they came to Baal Peor and they dedicated themselves to shame— they became as detestable as what they loved.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Hosea 9:11¹¹Ephraim will be like a bird; what they value will fly away. They will not bear children— they will not enjoy pregnancy— they will not even conceive!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Hosea 9:12¹²Even if they raise their children, I will take away every last one of them. Woe to them! For I will turn away from them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Hosea 9:13¹³Ephraim, as I have seen, has given their children for prey; Ephraim will bear his sons for slaughter.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Hosea 9:14¹⁴Give them, O Lord — what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry, and breasts that cannot nurse!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Hosea 9:15¹⁵Because of all their evil in Gilgal, I hate them there. On account of their evil deeds, I will drive them out of my land. I will no longer love them; all their rulers are rebels.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Hosea 9:16¹⁶Ephraim will be struck down — their root will be dried up; they will not yield any fruit. Even if they do bear children, I will kill their precious offspring.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Hosea 9:17¹⁷My God will reject them, for they have not obeyed him; so they will be fugitives among the nations.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions