# Hosea 9 (New King James Version)
Judgment of Israel's Sin

##### Chapter 9
###### 1 Do not rejoice, O Israel, with joy like _other_ peoples,  
For you have played the harlot against your God.  
You have made love _for_ 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 the Lord's land,  
But Ephraim shall return to Egypt,  
And shall eat unclean _things_ in Assyria.  

###### 4 They shall not offer wine _offerings_ to the Lord,  
Nor shall their 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.  
Nettles shall possess their valuables of silver;  
Thorns _shall be_ in their tents.

###### 7 The days of punishment have come;  
The days of recompense have come.  
Israel knows!  
The prophet _is_ a fool,  
The spiritual man _is_ insane,  
Because of the greatness of your iniquity and great enmity.  

###### 8 The 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 They are deeply corrupted,  
As in the days of Gibeah.  
He will remember their iniquity;  
He will punish their sins.

###### 10 "I found Israel  
Like grapes in the wilderness;  
I saw your fathers  
As the firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season.  
_But_ they went to Baal Peor,  
And separated themselves _to that_ shame;  
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, woe to them when I depart from them!  

###### 13 Just 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 a miscarrying womb  
And dry breasts!

###### 15 "All their wickedness _is_ in 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.  
All their princes _are_ rebellious.  

###### 16 Ephraim is 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 cast them away,  
Because they did not obey Him;  
And they shall be wanderers among the nations.