Hosea 9:1-9

New King James Version

Judgment of Israel’s Sin

9 Do^(A) not rejoice, O Israel, with joy like other peoples,
For you have played the harlot against your God.
You have made love for ^(B)hire on every threshing floor.
²The threshing floor and the winepress
Shall not feed them,
And the new wine shall fail in her.

³They shall not dwell in ^(C)the Lord’s land,
^(D)But Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
And ^(E)shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
⁴They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord,
Nor ^(F)shall their ^(G)sacrifices be pleasing to Him.
It shall be like bread of mourners to them;
All who eat it shall be defiled.
For their bread shall be for their own life;
It shall not come into the house of the Lord.

⁵What will you do in the appointed day,
And in the day of the feast of the Lord?
⁶For indeed they are gone because of destruction.
Egypt shall gather them up;
Memphis shall bury them.
^(H)Nettles shall possess their valuables of silver;
Thorns shall be in their tents.

⁷The ^(I)days of punishment have come;
The days of recompense have come.
Israel knows!
The prophet is a ^(J)fool,
^(K)The spiritual man is insane,
Because of the greatness of your iniquity and great enmity.
⁸The ^(L)watchman of Ephraim is with my God;
But the prophet is a ^[a]fowler’s snare in all his ways—
Enmity in the house of his God.
⁹^(M)They are deeply corrupted,
As in the days of ^(N)Gibeah.
He will remember their iniquity;
He will punish their sins.