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# Hosea 9 (New King James Version)
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Judgment of Israel's Sin
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##### Chapter 9
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###### 1 Do not rejoice, O Israel, with joy like _other_ peoples,
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For you have played the harlot against your God.
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You have made love _for_ hire on every threshing floor.
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###### 2 The threshing floor and the winepress
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Shall not feed them,
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And the new wine shall fail in her.
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###### 3 They shall not dwell in the Lord's land,
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But Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
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And shall eat unclean _things_ in Assyria.
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###### 4 They shall not offer wine _offerings_ to the Lord,
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Nor shall their sacrifices be pleasing to Him.
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_It shall be_ like bread of mourners to them;
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All who eat it shall be defiled.
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For their bread _shall be_ for their _own_ life;
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It shall not come into the house of the Lord.
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###### 5 What will you do in the appointed day,
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And in the day of the feast of the Lord?
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###### 6 For indeed they are gone because of destruction.
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Egypt shall gather them up;
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Memphis shall bury them.
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Nettles shall possess their valuables 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 knows!
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The prophet _is_ a fool,
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The spiritual man _is_ insane,
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Because of the greatness of your iniquity and great enmity.
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###### 8 The watchman of Ephraim _is_ with my God;
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But the prophet _is_ a fowler's snare in all his ways--
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Enmity in the house of his God.
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###### 9 They are deeply corrupted,
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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 "I found Israel
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Like grapes in the wilderness;
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I saw your fathers
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As the firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season.
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_But_ they went to Baal Peor,
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And separated themselves _to that_ shame;
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They became an abomination like the thing they loved.
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###### 11 _As for_ Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird--
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No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!
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###### 12 Though they bring up their children,
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Yet I will bereave them to the last man.
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Yes, woe to them when I depart from them!
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###### 13 Just as I saw Ephraim like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place,
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So Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer."
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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 "All their wickedness _is_ in Gilgal,
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For there I hated them.
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Because of the evil of their deeds
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I will drive them from My house;
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I will love them no more.
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All their princes _are_ rebellious.
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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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Yes, were they to bear children,
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I would kill the darlings of their womb."
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###### 17 My God will cast them away,
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Because they did not obey Him;
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And they shall be wanderers among the nations.
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