Hosea 9 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ O Yisra’ĕ

² Threshing floor and winepress shall not feed them, and new wine shall fail in her.

³ They shall not dwell in the land of יהוה, but Ephrayim shall return to Mitsrayim, and eat unclean food in Ashshur.

⁴ They do not pour wine offerings to יהוה, nor are their offerings pleasing to Him – it being like bread of mourners to them, all who eat it are defiled. For their bread is for their life, it does not come into the House of יהוה.

⁵ What do you do for the appointed meeting, and in the day of the festival of יהוה ?

⁶ For look, they shall go because of destruction – Mitsrayim gathers them up, Moph buries them, nettles possess their valuables of silver, thorns are in their tents.

⁷ The days of punishment have come, the days of retribution have come. Yisra’ĕ

⁸ Elohim’s watchman over you, Ephrayim, is the prophet, but a trapper’s snare is in all his ways. Enmity is in the House of his Elohim.

⁹ They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibʽ

¹⁰ “I found Yisra’ĕ

¹¹ “Ephrayim is like a bird, their esteem has flown away – no birth, and none with child, and no conception!

¹² “Though they bring up their children, I shall make them childless, without man. For it is woe to them when I turn away from them!

¹³ “I have seen Ephrayim, like Tsor, planted in a pleasant place. But Ephrayim shall bring out his children to the murderer.”

¹⁴ Give them, O יהוה  – give what? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

¹⁵ “All their evil is in Gilgal, for there I have hated them. Because of the evil of their deeds I drive them from My house, no more do I love them. All their rulers are rebels.

¹⁶ “Ephrayim has been smitten, their root has dried up, they yield no fruit. Even if they bear children, I shall put to death the precious ones of their womb.”

¹⁷ My Elohim rejects them, because they have not obeyed Him, so that they become wanderers among the gentiles!