Hosea · Unlocked Literal Bible
Hosea 9 Unlocked Literal Bible
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Hosea is not in PT1904.
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1 Do not rejoice, Israel, with joy like the other peoples. For you have been unfaithful, forsaking your God. You love to pay the wages a prostitute requires on all the threshing floors.
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.
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2 But the threshing floor and the winepress will not feed them; the new wine will fail them.
2 The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them, and the new wine will fail her.
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3 They will not continue to live in Yahweh's land; instead, Ephraim will return to Egypt, and one day they will eat 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.
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4 They will pour out no wine offerings to Yahweh, neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like mourners' food: all who eat it will be defiled. For their food will be for themselves only; it will not come into the house of Yahweh.
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.
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5 What will you do on the day of an appointed festival, on the day of a festival for Yahweh?
5 What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of Yahweh?
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6 For, look, if they escape from destruction, Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them. As for their treasures of silver— sharp briers will possess them, and thorns will fill 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.
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7 The days for punishment are coming; the days for retribution are coming. Let all Israel know these things. The prophet is a fool, and the inspired man is insane, because of your great iniquity and great hostility.
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.
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8 The prophet is the watchman for my God over Ephraim. But a bird snare is on all of his paths, and hostility toward him is 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.
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9 They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah. God will call to mind their iniquity, and he will punish 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.
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10 Yahweh says, “When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness. Like the very first fruit of the season on the fig tree, I found your fathers. But they went to Baal Peor, and they devoted themselves to that shameful idol. They became as detestable as the idol they loved.
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.
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11 As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.
11 As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.
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12 Though they have brought up children, I will take them away so that none of them is left. Woe to them when I turn away from them!
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!
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13 I have seen Ephraim, just like Tyre, planted in a meadow, but Ephraim will bring out his children to someone who will slaughter them.”
13 I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.
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14 Give them, Yahweh—what will you give them? Give them a miscarrying womb and breasts that give no milk.
14 Give them—Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
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15 “Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal, that is where I began to hate them. Because of their sinful deeds, I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more; all their officials are rebels.
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.
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16 Ephraim is diseased, and their root is dried up; they bear no fruit. Even if they have children, I will put their beloved children to death.”
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.”
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17 My God will reject them because they have not obeyed him. They will become wanderers 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.
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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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