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Hosea 9:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly as the nations do, for you have acted promiscuously,  leaving your God. You love the wages of a prostitute on every grain threshing-floor.

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The residents of Samaria  will have anxiety over the calf  of Beth-aven. Indeed, its idolatrous priests rejoiced over it; the people will mourn over it, over its glory. It will certainly go into exile.


My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of promiscuity leads them astray; they act promiscuously in disobedience to   their God.


Instead, we will do everything we promised:  we will burn incense to the queen of heaven  and offer drink offerings to her just as we, our ancestors, our kings, and our officials did in Judah’s cities  and in Jerusalem’s streets. Then we had enough food, we were well off, and we saw no disaster,


Come now, you rich  people, weep and wail over the miseries that are coming on you.


But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.


you who rejoice over Lo-debar and say, ‘Didn’t we capture Karnaim for ourselves by our own strength? ’


I have known only you out of all the clans of the earth; therefore, I will punish you for all your iniquities.


They betrayed the  Lord; indeed, they gave birth to illegitimate children. Now the New Moon  will devour them along with their fields.


Their actions do not allow them to return to their God, for a spirit of promiscuity is among them, and they do not know the  Lord.


I will devastate her vines and fig trees. She thinks that these are her wages that her lovers have given her. I will turn them into a thicket, and the wild animals will eat them.


It is sharpened for slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! Should we rejoice? The sceptre of my son, the sword despises every tree.


‘ “When you say, ‘Let’s be like the nations, like the clans of other countries, serving wood and stone,’  what you have in mind will never happen.


So rejoice and be glad, Daughter Edom, you resident of the land of Uz! Yet the cup  will pass to you as well; you will get drunk and expose yourself.


On the day that you plant, you will help them to grow, and in the morning you will help your seed to sprout, but the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.


I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cause everyone  to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make that grief like mourning for an only son and its outcome like a bitter day.


Offer leavened bread as a thanksgiving sacrifice, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings, for that is what you Israelites love to do! This is the declaration of the Lord  God.


Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Recognise  how evil and bitter  it is for you to abandon the  Lord your God and to have no fear of me. This is the declaration of the Lord God of Armies.


For long ago I   broke your yoke; I  tore off your chains. You insisted, ‘I will not serve! ’ On every high hill and under every green tree you lay down like a prostitute.


‘ “But you trusted in your beauty and acted like a prostitute because of your fame.  You lavished your sexual favours on everyone who passed by.  Your beauty became his.


‘ “How your heart was inflamed with lust   #– #the declaration of the Lord God  #– #when you did all these things, the acts of a brazen prostitute,





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