Hosea · Bible in Basic English
Hosea 9 Bible in Basic English
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
1 Have no joy, O Israel, and do not be glad like the nations; for you have been untrue to your God; your desire has been for the loose woman's reward on every grain-floor.
1 Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
2 The grain-floor and the place where the grapes are crushed will not give them food; there will be no new wine for them.
2 The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them, and the new wine will fail her.
3 They will have no resting-place in the Lord's land, but Ephraim will go back to Egypt, and they will take unclean food in Assyria.
3 They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
4 They will give no wine offering to the Lord, they will not make offerings ready for him; their bread will be like the bread of those in sorrow; all who take it will be unclean, because their bread will be only for their desire, it will not come into the house of the Lord.
4 They won’t pour out wine offerings to Yahweh, neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted; for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into Yahweh’s house.
5 What will you do on the day of worship, and on the day of the feast of the Lord?
5 What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of Yahweh?
6 For see, they are going away into Assyria; Egypt will get them together, Memphis will be their last resting-place; their fair silver vessels will be covered over with field plants, and thorns will come up in their tents.
6 For, behold, when they flee destruction, Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.
7 The days of punishment, the days of reward are come; Israel will be put to shame; the prophet is foolish, the man who has the spirit is off his head, because of your great sin.
7 The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.
8 There is great hate against the watchman of Ephraim, the people of my God; as for the prophet, there is a net in all his ways, and hate in the house of his God.
8 A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.
9 They have gone deep in evil as in the days of Gibeah; he will keep in mind their wrongdoing, he will give them punishment for their sins.
9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins.
10 I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love.
10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.
11 As for Ephraim, their glory will go in flight like a bird: there will be no birth and no one with child and no giving of life.
11 As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.
12 Even though their children have come to growth I will take them away, so that not a man will be there; for their evil-doing will be complete and they will be put to shame because of it.
12 Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!
13 As I have seen a beast whose young have been taken from her, so Ephraim will give birth to children only for them to be put to death.
13 I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.
14 O Lord, what will you give them? Give them bodies which may not give birth and breasts without milk.
14 Give them—Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
15 All their evil-doing is in Gilgal; there I had hate for them; because of their evil-doing I will send them out of my house; they will no longer be dear to me; all their rulers are uncontrolled.
15 “All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds, I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels.
16 The rod has come on Ephraim, their root is dry, let them have no fruit; even though they give birth, I will put to death the dearest fruit of their bodies.
16 Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.”
17 My God will give them up because they did not give ear to him; they will be wandering among the nations.
17 My God will cast them away, because they didn’t listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.
Cross references (17)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Hosea 10:5; Jeremiah 44:17; James 4:16; Hosea 4:12; Isaiah 17:11
- 2 Hosea 2:9; Micah 6:13–16; Hosea 2:12; Haggai 2:16; Isaiah 24:7–12
- 3 Ezekiel 4:13; Hosea 8:13; Leviticus 25:23; Jeremiah 2:7; Hosea 7:11
- 4 Jeremiah 6:20; Hosea 8:13; Deuteronomy 26:14; Haggai 2:13–14; Hosea 3:4
- 5 Isaiah 10:3; Jeremiah 5:31; Hosea 2:11; Joel 1:13
- 6 Hosea 10:8; Isaiah 5:6; Isaiah 7:23; Hosea 8:13; Hosea 7:16
- 7 Acts 26:24–25; Micah 7:4; Mark 3:21; 2 Kings 9:11; Ezekiel 13:3
- 8 Hosea 5:1; John 15:24; Ezekiel 3:17; Ezekiel 33:7; Lamentations 4:13
- 9 Hosea 10:9; Judges 19:16–20:21; Isaiah 31:6; Hosea 8:13
- 10 Jeremiah 11:13; Hosea 4:14; Numbers 25:1–18; Ezekiel 20:8; Hosea 2:15
- 11 Hosea 9:14; Genesis 41:52; Hosea 4:7; Deuteronomy 28:18; Hosea 10:5
- 12 Hosea 7:13; Hosea 9:16; Deuteronomy 31:17; Deuteronomy 32:25; Jeremiah 15:7
- 13 Ezekiel 27:3; Ezekiel 26:1–21; Amos 7:17; Hosea 9:16; Hosea 10:14
- 14 Luke 23:29; Luke 21:23; 1 Corinthians 7:26; Mark 13:17; Job 21:10
- 15 Isaiah 1:23; Hosea 4:15; Hosea 12:11; Amos 5:5; 1 Samuel 7:16
- 16 Hosea 9:11–13; Ezekiel 24:21; Isaiah 5:24; Job 18:16; Hosea 8:7
- 17 Deuteronomy 28:64–65; Hosea 7:13; Zechariah 7:11–14; Isaiah 48:18; Micah 7:7
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