New King James Version, 1982 - Hosea 9 (NKJV Bible)

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Hosea Chapter 9 (NKJV Bible)
1 Do [1†] not rejoice, O Israel, with joy like other peoples, For you have played the harlot against your God. You have made love for [2†]hire on every threshing floor.
2 The threshing floor and the winepress Shall not feed them, And the new wine shall fail in her.
3 They shall not dwell in [3†]the LORD’s land, [4†]But Ephraim shall return to Egypt, And [5†]shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, Nor [6†]shall their [7†]sacrifices be pleasing to Him. It shall be like bread of mourners to them; All who eat it shall be defiled. For their bread shall be for their own life; It shall not come into the house of the LORD.
5 What will you do in the appointed day, And in the day of the feast of the LORD?
6 For indeed they are gone because of destruction. Egypt shall gather them up; Memphis shall bury them. [8†]Nettles shall possess their valuables of silver; Thorns shall be in their tents.
7 The [9†]days of punishment have come; The days of recompense have come. Israel knows! The prophet is a [10†]fool, [11†]The spiritual man is insane, Because of the greatness of your iniquity and great enmity.
8 The [12†]watchman of Ephraim is with my God; But the prophet is a fowler’s snare in all his ways— Enmity in the house of his God.
9 [13†]They are deeply corrupted, As in the days of [14†]Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity; He will punish their sins.
10 “I found Israel Like grapes in the [15†]wilderness; I saw your fathers As the [16†]firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season. But they went to [17†]Baal Peor, And separated themselves to that shame; [18†]They became an abomination like the thing they loved.
11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird— No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!
12 Though they bring up their children, Yet I will bereave them to the last man. Yes, [19†]woe to them when I depart from them!
13 Just [20†]as I saw Ephraim like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place, So Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.”
14 Give them, O LORD— What will You give? Give them [21†]a miscarrying womb And dry breasts!
15 “All their wickedness is in [22†]Gilgal, For there I hated them. Because of the evil of their deeds I will drive them from My house; I will love them no more. [23†]All their princes are rebellious.
16 Ephraim is [24†]stricken, Their root is dried up; They shall bear no fruit. Yes, were they to bear children, I would kill the darlings of their womb.”
17 My God will [25†]cast them away, Because they did not obey Him; And they shall be [26†]wanderers among the nations.
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