### World English Bible

Hosea 8

## The Book of Hosea

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| # Chapter 9
#### 1 | Don't rejoice, Israel, for joy, like the peoples; for you have played the prostitute, [departing] from your God; you have loved hire on every grain-floor.
#### 2 | The threshing floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.
#### 3 | They shall not dwell in Yahweh's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.
#### 4 | They shall not pour out wine-offerings to Yahweh, neither shall they be pleasing to him: their sacrifices shall be to them as the bread of mourners; all who eat of it shall be polluted; for their bread shall be for their appetite; it shall not come into the house of Yahweh.
#### 5 | What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of Yahweh?
#### 6 | For, behold, they have gone away from destruction; [yet] Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them; their pleasant things of silver, nettles shall possess them; thorns shall be in their tents.
#### 7 | The days of visitation have come, the days of recompense have come. Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the man who has the spirit is mad, for the abundance of your iniquity, and because the enmity is great.
#### 8 | Ephraim [was] a watchman with my God: as for the prophet, a fowler's snare is in all his ways, [and] enmity in the house of his God.
#### 9 | They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
#### 10 | I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.
#### 11 | As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.
#### 12 | Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, so that not a man shall be left: yes, woe also to them when I depart from them!
#### 13 | Ephraim, like as I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring out his children to the killer.
#### 14 | Give them, Yahweh what will you give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
#### 15 | All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house; I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.
#### 16 | Ephraim is struck, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yes, though they bring forth, yet will I kill the beloved fruit of their womb.
#### 17 | My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

Hosea 10

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