Hosea 9

¹ You must not rejoice, Israel, with exultation as the peoples, for you commit prostitution departing from your Elohim. You love a fee on all the threshing sites for grain; ² the threshing site and the wine vat shall not know them, and the grape juice shall dissimulate in them. ³ They shall not dwell in the land of Yahweh, and Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and in Assyria they shall eat the unclean thing. ⁴ They shall not libate wine to Yahweh, and they shall not be congenial to Him. Their sacrifices are as the bread of sighings to them. All who are eating it are defiling themselves. For their bread is for their own soul; it shall not enter into the house of Yahweh. ⁵ What will you do for the day of appointment, and for the day of the celebration of Yahweh? ⁶ For behold! They shall go away from devastation. Egypt will convene them; Memphis shall entomb them. The coveted places for their silver - the sting nettle shall tenant them. The thistle shall be in their tents. ⁷ The days of visitation shall come; the days of repayment shall come, and Israel shall know it. The prophet is foolish; the man of the spirit is mad on account of the multitude of your depravity, and the vast grudging. ⁸ The watchman of Ephraim was with my Elohim. The prophet is a snare, a trap in all his ways, a grudging in the house of his Elohim. ⁹ Deeply they ruin as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their depravity and will note their sins. ¹⁰ As grapes in a wilderness I found Israel; as a firstfruit, when the fig tree is in its beginning, I saw your forefathers. They came to Baal-peor and are sequestering themselves for shame. And they are becoming abominations, as that which they love. ¹¹ Ephraim is as a flyer; their glory shall fly itself away from birth, and from the belly and from pregnancy. ¹² For, if they are bringing up their sons, then will I bereave them of a human, for, moreover, woe to them when My control is away from them! ¹³ Ephraim, just as I see as to Tyre, is transplanted into a homestead, yet Ephraim shall bring forth his sons to the killer. ¹⁴ Give to them, Yahweh! What wilt You give? Give to them a bereaving womb and shrivelling breasts. ¹⁵ All their evil is in Gilgal, for there I hated them. On account of the evil of their actions, from My house will I drive them out. I will continue to love them. All their chiefs are stubborn. ¹⁶ Smitten is Ephraim. Their root is dry; fruit shall they fail to yield. Moreover, in case they shall generate, then I will put to death the coveted ones of their belly. ¹⁷ My Elohim will reject them, for they did not hearken to Him. And they shall become wanderers among the nations.