Hosea 9:1 - Prayer Tents

Ephraim Punished

9REJOICE NOT, O Israel, with exultation as do the peoples, for you have played the harlot, forsaking your God. You have loved [a harlot's] hire upon every threshing floor [ascribing the harvest to the Baals instead of to God].H8055H3478H1524H5971H2181H430H157H868H1637H1715

2The threshing floor and the winevat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them.H1637H3342H7462H8492H3584

3They shall not remain in the Lord's land, but Ephraim shall return to [another] Egypt and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.H3427H3068H776H669H7725H4714H398H2931H804

4They shall not pour out wine offerings to the Lord, neither shall they be pleasing to Him. Their sacrifices shall be to them as the bread of mourners; all who eat of them shall be defiled, for their bread shall be [only] for their appetite; it shall not come into the house of the Lord [to be offered first to Him].H5258H3196H3068H6149H2077H3899H205H398H2930H3899H5315H935H1004H3068

5What will you do on the day of the appointed solemn assembly {or} festival and on the day of the feast of the Lord [when you are in exile]?H6213H4150H3117H3117H2282H3068

6For behold, they are gone away from devastation {and} destruction; Egypt shall gather them in; Memphis shall bury them. Their precious things of silver shall be in the possession of nettles; thorns shall be [growing] in their tents.H1980H7701H4714H6908H4644H6912H4261H3701H7057H3423H2336H168

7The days of visitation {and} punishment have come; the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is [considered] a crazed fool and the man who is inspired is [treated as if] mad {or} a fanatic, because of the abundance of your iniquity and because the enmity, hostility, {and} persecution are great.H3117H6486H935H3117H7966H935H3478H3045H5030H191H7307H376H7696H7230H5771H7227H4895

8Ephraim was [intended to be] a watchman with my God [and a prophet to the surrounding nations]; but he, that prophet, has become a fowler's snare in all his ways. There is enmity, hostility, {and} persecution in the house of his God.H6822H669H430H5030H6341H3352H1870H4895H1004H430

9They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah. The Lord will [earnestly] remember their iniquity; He will punish their sins.H6009H7843H3117H1390H2142H5771H6485H2403

10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first ripe fruit on the fig tree in its first season, but they went to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to that shameful thing [Baal], and they became detestable {and} loathsome like that which they loved.H4672H3478H6025H4057H7200H1H1063H8384H7225H935H1187H5144H1322H8251H157

11As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird; there shall be no birth, no being with child, and [because of their impurity] no becoming pregnant.H669H3519H5774H5775H3205H990H2032

12Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them so that not a man shall be left; yes, woe also to them when I look away {and} depart from them!H1431H1121H7921H120H188H5493

13Ephraim, as I have seen with Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place, but Ephraim shall bring out his children to the slayer.H669H7200H6865H8362H5116H669H3318H1121H2026

14Give them [their due], O Lord! [But] what will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.H5414H3068H5414H5414H7921H7358H6784H7699

15All their wickedness [says the Lord] is focused in Gilgal, for there I hated them; for the wickedness of their [idolatrous] doings I will drive them out of My house [the Holy Land]; I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.H7451H1537H8130H7455H4611H1644H1004H160H3254H8269H5637

16Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit. Yes, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even their beloved children.H669H5221H8328H3001H6213H6529H3205H4191H4261H990

17My God will cast them away because they did not listen to {and} obey Him, and they shall be wanderers {and} fugitives among the nations.H430H3988H8085H5074H1471