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            <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Do not rejoice, Israel;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.9.1"><span class="content">do not be jubilant like the other nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.9.1"><span class="content">For you have been unfaithful to your God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.9.1"><span class="content">you love the wages of a prostitute</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.9.1"><span class="content">at every threshing floor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.9.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Threshing floors and winepresses will not feed the people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.9.2"><span class="content">the new wine will fail them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.9.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They will not remain in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s land;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.9.3"><span class="content">Ephraim will return to Egypt</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.9.3"><span class="content">and eat unclean food in Assyria.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.9.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They will not pour out wine offerings to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.9.4"><span class="content">nor will their sacrifices please him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.9.4"><span class="content">Such sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.9.4"><span class="content">all who eat them will be unclean.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.9.4"><span class="content">This food will be for themselves;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.9.4"><span class="content">it will not come into the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.9.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">What will you do on the day of your appointed festivals,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.9.5"><span class="content">on the feast days of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.9.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Even if they escape from destruction,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.9.6"><span class="content">Egypt will gather them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.9.6"><span class="content">and Memphis will bury them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.9.6"><span class="content">Their treasures of silver will be taken over by briers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.9.6"><span class="content">and thorns will overrun their tents.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The days of punishment are coming,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.9.7"><span class="content">the days of reckoning are at hand.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.9.7"><span class="content">Let Israel know this.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.9.7"><span class="content">Because your sins are so many</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.9.7"><span class="content">and your hostility so great,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.9.7"><span class="content">the prophet is considered a fool,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.9.7"><span class="content">the inspired person a maniac.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.9.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The prophet, along with my God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.9.8"><span class="content">is the watchman over Ephraim,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">The prophet is the watchman over Ephraim, / the people of my God</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.9.8"><span class="content">yet snares await him on all his paths,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.9.8"><span class="content">and hostility in the house of his God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.9.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">They have sunk deep into corruption,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.9.9"><span class="content">as in the days of Gibeah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.9.9"><span class="content">God will remember their wickedness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.9.9"><span class="content">and punish them for their sins.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.9.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;When I found Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.9.10"><span class="content">it was like finding grapes in the desert;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.9.10"><span class="content">when I saw your ancestors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.9.10"><span class="content">it was like seeing the early fruit on the fig tree.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.9.10"><span class="content">But when they came to Baal Peor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.9.10"><span class="content">they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.9.10"><span class="content">and became as vile as the thing they loved.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.9.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Ephraim&#8217;s glory will fly away like a bird&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.9.11"><span class="content">no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Even if they rear children,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.9.12"><span class="content">I will bereave them of every one.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.9.12"><span class="content">Woe to them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.9.12"><span class="content">when I turn away from them!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.9.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.9.13"><span class="content">planted in a pleasant place.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.9.13"><span class="content">But Ephraim will bring out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.9.13"><span class="content">their children to the slayer.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.9.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Give them, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.9.14"><span class="content">what will you give them?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.9.14"><span class="content">Give them wombs that miscarry</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.9.14"><span class="content">and breasts that are dry.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.9.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.9.15"><span class="content">I hated them there.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.9.15"><span class="content">Because of their sinful deeds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.9.15"><span class="content">I will drive them out of my house.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.9.15"><span class="content">I will no longer love them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.9.15"><span class="content">all their leaders are rebellious.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.9.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Ephraim is blighted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.9.16"><span class="content">their root is withered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.9.16"><span class="content">they yield no fruit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.9.16"><span class="content">Even if they bear children,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.9.16"><span class="content">I will slay their cherished offspring.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.9.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HOS.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">My God will reject them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HOS.9.17"><span class="content">because they have not obeyed him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HOS.9.17"><span class="content">they will be wanderers among the nations.</span></span></div>
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