Hosea 9 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 Thou shalt not rejoice, O Israel; exult not as the peoples: for thou didst commit fornication from thy God; thou didst love a gift upon all the threshing-floors of grain. Rejoice not, O Israel! Exult not like the peoples; for you have played the whore, forsaking your God. You have loved a prostitute’s wages on all threshing floors. Do not rejoice, Israel; do not be jubilant like the other nations. For you have been unfaithful to your God; you love the wages of a prostitute at every threshing floor.
2 The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them. Threshing floors and winepresses will not feed the people; the new wine will fail them.
3 They shall not dwell in the land of Jehovah; and Ephraim turned back to Egypt, and in Assur they shall eat the unclean thing. They shall not remain in the land of the LORD, but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria. They will not remain in the LORD’s land; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.
4 They shall not pour out wine to Jehovah, and they shall not be pleasant to him: their sacrifices as the bread of sorrows to them; all eating it shall be defiled: for their bread for their soul shall not come in to the house of Jehovah. They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the LORD, and their sacrifices shall not please him. It shall be like mourners’ bread to them; all who eat of it shall be defiled; for their bread shall be for their hunger only; it shall not come to the house of the LORD. They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, nor will their sacrifices please him. Such sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat them will be unclean. This food will be for themselves; it will not come into the temple of the LORD.
5 What will ye do for the day of appointment, and for the day of the festival of Jehovah? What will you do on the day of the appointed festival, and on the day of the feast of the LORD? What will you do on the day of your appointed festivals, on the feast days of the LORD?
6 For behold, they went from destruction: Egypt shall gather them together; Memphis shall bury them: the desire for their silver, the prickly weed shall possess them: the thorn in their tents. For behold, they are going away from destruction; but Egypt shall gather them; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver; thorns shall be in their tents. Even if they escape from destruction, Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them. Their treasures of silver will be taken over by briers, and thorns will overrun their tents.
7 The days of oversight came, the days of recompense came; Israel knew: the prophet is foolish, the man of the spirit, raving, for the multitude of thine iniquity and great destruction. The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool; the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred. The days of punishment are coming, the days of reckoning are at hand. Let Israel know this. Because your sins are so many and your hostility so great, the prophet is considered a fool, the inspired person a maniac.
8 The watchman of Ephraim with God: the prophet the snare of a fowler upon all his ways; destruction in the house of his God. The prophet is the watchman of Ephraim with my God; yet a fowler’s snare is on all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God. The prophet, along with my God, is the watchman over Ephraim, yet snares await him on all his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.
9 They made deep, they were corrupted as the days of the hill: he will remember their iniquity, he will review their sins. They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins. They have sunk deep into corruption, as in the days of Gibeah. God will remember their wickedness and punish them for their sins.
10 I found Israel as grapes in the desert; as the first fruit in the fig tree in her beginning I saw your fathers: they went to Baal-Peor, and they will separate themselves to shame, and their abominable things will be according to their love. Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your fathers. But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame, and became detestable like the thing they loved. “When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the desert; when I saw your ancestors, it was like seeing the early fruit on the fig tree. But when they came to Baal Peor, they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol and became as vile as the thing they loved.
11 Ephraim shall fly away as a bird, their glory of birth and of the womb and of conception. Ephraim’s glory shall fly away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, no conception! Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.
12 But if they shall bring up their sons and I bereaved them from man: but also wo to them in my departing from them. Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them! Even if they rear children, I will bereave them of every one. Woe to them when I turn away from them!
13 Ephraim, as I saw for Tyre, was planted in a habitation: and Ephraim to bring forth his sons to him slaying. Ephraim, as I have seen, was like a young palm planted in a meadow; but Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter. I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place. But Ephraim will bring out their children to the slayer.”
14 Give to them, O Jehovah: what wilt thou give? give to them a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts. Give them, O LORD— what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. Give them, LORD— what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that are dry.
15 All their wickedness in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the evil of their doings I will drive them out from my house, I will not add to love them: all their chiefs are turning away. Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal; there I began to hate 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. “Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal, I hated them there. Because of their sinful deeds, I will drive them out of my house. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.
16 Ephraim was smitten, their root was dried up, they shall not make fruit: also if they shall bring forth, and I destroyed the desires of their womb. Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, I will put their beloved children to death. Ephraim is blighted, their root is withered, they yield no fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay their cherished offspring.”
17 God will reject them, for they heard not to him: and they will be wandering about among the nations. My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations. My God will reject them because they have not obeyed him; they will be wanderers among the nations.
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