Hosea 9
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Hosea 9
Punishment for Israel’s Sin
1 #
Isa 22.12, 13; Jer 44.17; Hos 4.12; 10.5 Do not rejoice, O Israel!
Do not exult#9.1 Gk: Heb To exultation as other nations do,
for you have prostituted yourself, departing from your God.
You have loved a prostitute’s pay
on all threshing floors.
2 #
Hos 2.9
Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them,
and the new wine shall fail them.
3 #
Jer 2.7; Ezek 4.13; Hos 7.11; 8.13 They shall not remain in the land of the Lord,
but Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
and in Assyria they shall eat unclean food.
4 #
Jer 6.20; Hos 5.6; 8.13; Hag 2.14 They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the Lord,
and their sacrifices shall not please him.
Such sacrifices shall be like mourners’ bread;
all who eat of it shall be defiled,
for their bread shall be for their hunger only;
it shall not come to the house of the Lord.
5 #
Isa 10.3; Jer 5.31; Joel 1.13 What will you do on the day of appointed festival
and on the day of the festival of the Lord?
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Isa 5.6; Jer 2.16; Ezek 30.13, 16; Hos 8.13; 10.8 For even if they escape destruction,
Egypt shall gather them;
Memphis shall bury them.
Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver;#9.6 Meaning of Heb uncertain
thorns shall be in their tents.
7 #
Isa 34.8; Jer 10.15; 16.18; Ezek 14.9, 10; Mic 7.4 The days of punishment have come;
the days of recompense have come.
Israel will cry out,#9.7 Or will know
“The prophet is a fool;
the man of the spirit is mad!”
Because of your great iniquity,
your hostility is great.
8 #
Hos 5.1
The prophet is a sentinel for my God over Ephraim,
yet a hunter’s snare is on all his ways
and hostility in the house of his God.
9 #
Judg 19.12; Isa 31.6; Hos 5.8; 7.2; 8.13; 10.9 They have deeply corrupted themselves
as in the days of Gibeah;
he will remember their iniquity;
he will punish their sins.
10 #
Num 25.3; Jer 11.13; 24.2; Hos 4.14; Mic 7.1 Like grapes in the wilderness,
I found Israel.
Like the first fruit on the fig tree,
in its first season,
I saw your ancestors.
But they came to Baal-peor
and consecrated themselves to a thing of shame
and became detestable like the thing they loved.
11 #
v 14
; Hos 4.7; 10.5Ephraim’s glory shall fly away like a bird—
no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
12 #
v 16
; Hos 7.13Even if they bring up children,
I will bereave them until no one is left.
Woe to them indeed
when I depart from them!
13 #
Ezek 27.3, 4 Once I saw Ephraim as a young palm planted in a lovely meadow,#9.13 Meaning of Heb uncertain
but now Ephraim must lead out his children for slaughter.
14Give them, O Lord—
what will you give?
Give them a miscarrying womb
and dry breasts.
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Isa 1.23; Hos 4.9; 7.2; 12.2 Every evil of theirs began at Gilgal;
there I came to hate them.
Because of the wickedness of their deeds
I will drive them out of my house.
I will love them no more;
all their officials are rebels.
16 #
v 12
; Hos 5.11; 8.7Ephraim is stricken,
their root is dried up,
they shall bear no fruit.
Even though they give birth,
I will kill the cherished offspring of their womb.
17 #
Deut 28.65; Hos 4.10 Because they have not listened to him,
my God will reject them;
they shall become wanderers among the nations.
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