Holy Bible
(King James Version)
Hosea:
Chapter 9
1. REJOICE
not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a-whoring
from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
2. The 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 E-phra-im shall return
to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
4. They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they
be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread
of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for
their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.
5. What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the
LORD?
6. For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather
them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver,
nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.
7. The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come;
Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is
mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
8. The watchman of E-phra-im was with my God: but the prophet is a snare
of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.
9. They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah:
therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
10. I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as
the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to
Ba-al-pe-or, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their
abominations were according as they loved.
11. As for E-phra-im, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the
birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
12. Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that
there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from
them!
13. E-phra-im, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but
Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
14. Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb
and dry breasts.
15. All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the
wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will
love them no more: all their princes are revolters.
16. E-phra-im is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no
fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved
fruit of their womb.
16. My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him:
and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Dec. 12 Daily
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