| Berean Study Bible | NET Bible |
| 1Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor. | 1O Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly like the nations, for you are unfaithful to your God. You love to receive a prostitute\'s wages on all the floors where you thresh your grain. |
| 2The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them. | 2Threshing floors and wine vats will not feed the people, and new wine only deceives them. |
| 3They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria. | 3They will not remain in the LORD's land. Ephraim will return to Egypt; they will eat ritually unclean food in Assyria. |
| 4They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him, but will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat will be defiled. For their bread will be for themselves; it will not enter the house of the LORD. | 4They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the LORD; they will not please him with their sacrifices. Their sacrifices will be like bread eaten while in mourning; all those who eat them will make themselves ritually unclean. For their bread will be only to satisfy their appetite; it will not come into the temple of the LORD. |
| 5What will you do on the appointed day, on the day of the LORD’s feast? | 5So what will you do on the festival day, on the festival days of the LORD? |
| 6For even if they flee destruction, Egypt will gather them and Memphis will bury them. Their precious silver will be taken over by thistles, and thorns will overrun their tents. | 6Look! Even if they flee from the destruction, Egypt will take hold of them, and Memphis will bury them. The weeds will inherit the silver they treasure--thorn bushes will occupy their homes. |
| 7The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have arrived—let Israel know it. The prophet is called a fool, and the inspired man insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and hostility. | 7The time of judgment is about to arrive! The time of retribution is imminent! Let Israel know! Israel Rejects Hosea's Prophetic Exhortations The prophet is considered a fool--the inspired man is viewed as a madman--because of the multitude of your sins and your intense animosity. |
| 8The prophet is Ephraim’s watchman, along with my God, yet the snare of the fowler lies on all his paths. Hostility is in the house of his God! | 8The prophet is a watchman over Ephraim on behalf of God, yet traps are laid for him along all of his paths; animosity rages against him in the land of his God. |
| 9They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins. | 9They have sunk deep into corruption as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their wrongdoing. He will repay them for their sins. |
| 10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved. | 10When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness. I viewed your ancestors like an early fig on a fig tree in its first season. Then they came to Baal-Peor and they dedicated themselves to shame--they became as detestable as what they loved. |
| 11Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird, with no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception. | 11Ephraim will be like a bird; what they value will fly away. They will not bear children--they will not enjoy pregnancy--they will not even conceive! |
| 12Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe be to them when I turn away from them! | 12Even if they raise their children, I will take away every last one of them. Woe to them! For I will turn away from them. |
| 13I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a meadow. But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter. | 13Just as lion cubs are born predators, so Ephraim will bear his sons for slaughter. |
| 14Give them, O LORD—what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up! | 14Give them, O LORD--what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry, and breasts that cannot nurse! |
| 15All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious. | 15Because of all their evil in Gilgal, I hate them there. On account of their evil deeds, I will drive them out of my land. I will no longer love them; all their rulers are rebels. |
| 16Ephraim is struck down; their root is withered; they cannot bear fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay the darlings of their wombs. | 16Ephraim will be struck down--their root will be dried up; they will not yield any fruit. Even if they do bear children, I will kill their precious offspring. |
| 17My God will reject them because they have not obeyed Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations. | 17My God will reject them, for they have not obeyed him; so they will be fugitives among the nations. |
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