Hosea 9:7-17 ▼

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.

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.

9 They made deep, they were corrupted as the days of the hill: he will remember their iniquity, he will review 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.

11 Ephraim shall fly away as a bird, their glory of birth and of the womb and of 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.

13 Ephraim, as I saw for Tyre, was planted in a habitation: and Ephraim to bring forth his sons to him slaying.

14 Give to them, O Jehovah: what wilt thou give? give to them a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.

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.

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.

17 God will reject them, for they heard not to him: and they will be wandering about among the nations.