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# Chapter 9
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1 Rejoice not, O Israel!
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Exult not like the peoples;
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for you have played the whore, forsaking your God.
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You have loved a prostitute's wages
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on all threshing floors.
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2 Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them,
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and the new wine shall fail them.
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3 They shall not remain in the land of the Lord,
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but Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
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and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.
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4 They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the Lord,
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and their sacrifices shall not please him.
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It shall be like mourners' bread to them;
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all who eat of it shall be defiled;
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for their bread shall be for their hunger only;
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it shall not come to the house of the Lord.
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5 What will you do on the day of the appointed festival,
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and on the day of the feast of the Lord?
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6 For behold, they are going away from destruction;
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but Egypt shall gather them;
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Memphis shall bury them.
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Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver;
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thorns shall be in their tents.
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7 The days of punishment have come;
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the days of recompense have come;
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Israel shall know it.
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The prophet is a fool;
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the man of the spirit is mad,
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because of your great iniquity
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and great hatred.
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8 The prophet is the watchman of Ephraim with my God;
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yet a fowler's snare is on all his ways,
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and hatred in the house of his God.
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9 They have deeply corrupted themselves
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as in the days of Gibeah:
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he will remember their iniquity;
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he will punish their sins.
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10 Like grapes in the wilderness,
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I found Israel.
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Like the first fruit on the fig tree
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in its first season,
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I saw your fathers.
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But they came to Baal-peor
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and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame,
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and became detestable like the thing they loved.
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11 Ephraim's glory shall fly away like a bird—
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no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
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12 Even if they bring up children,
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I will bereave them till none is left.
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Woe to them
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when I depart from them!
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13 Ephraim, as I have seen, was like a young palm planted in a meadow;
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but Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.
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14 Give them, O Lord—
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what will you give?
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Give them a miscarrying womb
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and dry breasts.
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15 Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal;
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there I began to hate them.
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Because of the wickedness of their deeds
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I will drive them out of my house.
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I will love them no more;
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all their princes are rebels.
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16 Ephraim is stricken;
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their root is dried up;
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they shall bear no fruit.
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Even though they give birth,
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I will put their beloved children to death.
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17 My God will reject them
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because they have not listened to him;
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they shall be wanderers among the nations. |