jps - Hosea:9:1-10:15

jps@Hosea:9:1 @ Rejoice not, O Israel, unto exultation, like the peoples, for thou hast gone astray from thy God, thou hast loved a harlot's hire upon every corn-floor.

jps@Hosea:9:2 @ The threshing-floor and the wine-press shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.

jps@Hosea:9:3 @ They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

jps@Hosea:9:4 @ They shall not pour out wine-offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto Him; their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners, all that eat thereof shall be polluted; for their bread shall be for their appetite, it shall not come into the house of the LORD.

jps@Hosea:9:5 @ What will ye do in the day of the appointed season, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?

jps@Hosea:9:6 @ For, lo, they are gone away from destruction, yet Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them; their precious treasures of silver, nettles shall possess them, thorns shall be in their tents.

jps@Hosea:9:7 @ The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come, Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is mad! For the multitude of thine iniquity, the enmity is great.

jps@Hosea:9:8 @ Ephraim is a watchman with my God; as for the prophet, a fowler's snare is in all his ways, and enmity in the house of his God.

jps@Hosea:9:9 @ They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their iniquity, He will punish their sins.

jps@Hosea:9:10 @ I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness, I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at her first season; but so soon as they came to Baal-peor, they separated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became detestable like that which they loved.

jps@Hosea:9:11 @ As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird; there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.

jps@Hosea:9:12 @ Yea, though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there be not a man left; yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

jps@Hosea:9:13 @ Ephraim, like as I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the slayer.

jps@Hosea:9:14 @ Give them, O LORD, whatsoever Thou wilt give; give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

jps@Hosea:9:15 @ All their wickedness is in Gilgal, for there I hated them; because of the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of My house; I will love them no more, all their princes are rebellious.

jps@Hosea:9:16 @ Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit; yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved fruit of their womb.

jps@Hosea:9:17 @ My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

jps@Hosea:10:1 @ Israel was a luxuriant vine, which put forth fruit freely: as his fruit increased, he increased his altars; the more goodly his land was, the more goodly were his pillars.

jps@Hosea:10:2 @ Their heart is divided; now shall they bear their guilt; He will break down their altars, He will spoil their pillars.

jps@Hosea:10:3 @ Surely now shall they say: 'We have no king; for we feared not the LORD; and the king, what can he do for us?'

jps@Hosea:10:4 @ They speak words, they swear falsely, they make covenants; thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

jps@Hosea:10:5 @ The inhabitants of Samaria shall be in dread for the calves of Beth-aven; for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof shall tremble for it, for its glory, because it is departed from it.

jps@Hosea:10:6 @ It also shall be carried unto Assyria, for a present to King Contentious; Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

jps@Hosea:10:7 @ As for Samaria, her king is cut off, as foam upon the water.

jps@Hosea:10:8 @ The high places also of Aven shall be destroyed, even the sin of Israel. The thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains: 'Cover us', and to the hills: 'Fall on us.'

jps@Hosea:10:9 @ From the days of Gibeah thou hast sinned, O Israel; there they stood; no battle was to overtake them in Gibeah, nor the children of arrogancy.

jps@Hosea:10:10 @ When it is My desire, I will chastise them; and the peoples shall be gathered against them, when they are yoked to their two rings.

jps@Hosea:10:11 @ And Ephraim is a heifer well broken, that loveth to thresh, and I have passed over upon her fair neck; I will make Ephraim to ride, Judah shall plow, Jacob shall break his clods.

jps@Hosea:10:12 @ Sow to yourselves according to righteousness, reap according to mercy, break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, till He come and cause righteousness to rain upon you.

jps@Hosea:10:13 @ Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity, ye have eaten the fruit of lies; for thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.

jps@Hosea:10:14 @ Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy hosts, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Beth-arbel in the day of battle; the mother was dashed in pieces with her children.

jps@Hosea:10:15 @ So hath Beth-el done unto you because of your great wickedness; at daybreak is the king of Israel utterly cut off.