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68 lines
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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. |