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# Chapter 9
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1 Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly as the nations do,
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for you have acted promiscuously, leaving your God.
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You love the wages of a prostitute
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on every grain-threshing floor.
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2 Threshing floor and wine vat will not sustain them,
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and the new wine will fail them.
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3 They will not stay in the land of the Lord.
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Instead, Ephraim will return to Egypt,
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and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
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4 They will not pour out
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their wine offerings to the Lord,
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and their sacrifices will not please him.
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Their food will be like the bread of mourners;
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all who eat it become defiled.
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For their bread will be for their appetites alone;
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it will not enter the house of the Lord.
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5 What will you do on a festival day,
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on the day of the Lord’s feast?
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6 For even if they flee from devastation,
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Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them.
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Thistles will take possession of their precious silver;
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thorns will invade their tents.
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7 The days of punishment have come;
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the days of retribution have come.
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Let Israel recognize it!
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The prophet is a fool,
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and the inspired man is insane,
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because of the magnitude
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of your iniquity and hostility.
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8 Ephraim’s watchman is with my God.
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Yet the prophet encounters a bird trap
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on all his pathways.
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Hostility is 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 I discovered Israel
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like grapes in the wilderness.
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I saw your ancestors
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like the first fruit of the fig tree in its first season.
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But they went to Baal-peor,
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consecrated themselves to Shame,
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and became abhorrent,
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like the thing they loved.
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11 Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird:
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no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.
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12 Even if they raise children,
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I will bereave them of each one.
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Yes, woe to them when I depart from them!
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13 I have seen Ephraim like Tyre,
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planted in a meadow,
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so Ephraim will bring out his children
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to the executioner.
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14 Give them, Lord—
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What should you give?
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Give them a womb that miscarries
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and breasts that are dry!
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15 All their evil appears at Gilgal,
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for there I began to hate them.
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I will drive them from my house
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because of their evil, wicked actions.
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I will no longer love them;
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all their leaders are rebellious.
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16 Ephraim is struck down;
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their roots are withered;
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they cannot bear fruit.
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Even if they bear children,
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I will kill the precious offspring of their wombs.
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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 will become wanderers among the nations. |