Hosea 9 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ They have sinned deeply, as in the days of Gabaa: he will remember their iniquity, and will visit their sin.

² 0 I found Israel like grapes in the desert, I saw their fathers like the firstfruits of the fig tree in the top thereof: but they went in to Beelphegor, and alienated themselves to that confusion, and became abominable, as those things were, which they loved.

³ 1 As for Ephraim, their glory hath flown away like a bird from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

⁴ 2 And though they should bring up their children, I will make them without children among men: yea, and woe to them, when I shall depart from them.

⁵ 3 Ephraim, as I saw, was a Tyre founded in beauty: and Ephraim shall bring out his children to the murderer.

⁶ 4 Give them, O Lord. What wilt thou give them? Give them a womb without children, and dry breasts.

⁷ 5 All their wickedness is in Galgal, for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their devices I will cast them forth out of my house: I will love them no more, all their princes are revolters.

⁸ 6 Ephraim is struck, their root is dried up, they shall yield no fruit. And if they should have issue, I will slay the best beloved fruit of their womb.

⁹ 7 My God will cast them away, because they hearkened not to him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

¹⁰ Israel a vine full of branches, the fruit is agreeable to it: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath multiplied altars, according to the plenty of his land he hath abounded with idols.

¹¹ Their heart is divided: now they shall perish: he shall break down their idols, he shall destroy their altars.

¹² For now they shall say: We have no king: because we fear not the Lord: and what shall a king do to us?

¹³ You speak words of an unprofitable vision, and you shall make a covenant: and judgment shall spring up as bitterness in the furrows of the field.

¹⁴ The inhabitants of Samaria have worshipped the king of Bethaven: for the people thereof have mourned over it, and the wardens of its temple that rejoiced over it in its glory because it is departed from it.

¹⁵ For itself also is carried into Assyria, a present to the avenging king: shame shall fall upon Ephraim, and Israel shall be confounded in his own will.

¹⁶ Samaria hath made her king to pass as froth upon the face of the water.

¹⁷ And the high places of the idol, the sin of Israel shall be destroyed: the bur and the thistle shall grow up over their altars: and they shall say to the mountains: Cover us; and to the hills: Fall upon us.