nkjv - Hosea:9:1-10:15

nkjv@Hosea:9:1 @ Do not rejoice, O Israel, with joy like other peoples, For you have played the harlot against your God. You have made love for hire on every threshing floor.

nkjv@Hosea:9:2 @ The threshing floor and the winepress Shall not feed them, And the new wine shall fail in her.

nkjv@Hosea:9:3 @ They shall not dwell in the LORD's land, But Ephraim shall return to Egypt, And shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

nkjv@Hosea:9:4 @ They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, Nor shall their sacrifices be pleasing to Him. It shall be like bread of mourners to them; All who eat it shall be defiled. For their bread shall be for their own life; It shall not come into the house of the LORD.

nkjv@Hosea:9:5 @ What will you do in the appointed day, And in the day of the feast of the LORD?

nkjv@Hosea:9:6 @ For indeed they are gone because of destruction. Egypt shall gather them up; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their valuables of silver; Thorns shall be in their tents.

nkjv@Hosea:9:7 @ The days of punishment have come; The days of recompense have come. Israel knows! The prophet is a fool, The spiritual man is insane, Because of the greatness of your iniquity and great enmity.

nkjv@Hosea:9:8 @ The watchman of Ephraim is with my God; But the prophet is a fowler's snare in all his ways-- Enmity in the house of his God.

nkjv@Hosea:9:9 @ They are deeply corrupted, As in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity; He will punish their sins.

nkjv@Hosea:9:10 @ "I found Israel Like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers As the firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal Peor, And separated themselves to that shame; They became an abomination like the thing they loved.

nkjv@Hosea:9:11 @ As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird-- No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!

nkjv@Hosea:9:12 @ Though they bring up their children, Yet I will bereave them to the last man. Yes, woe to them when I depart from them!

nkjv@Hosea:9:13 @ Just as I saw Ephraim like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place, So Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer."

nkjv@Hosea:9:14 @ Give them, O LORD-- What will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb And dry breasts!

nkjv@Hosea:9:15 @ "All their wickedness is in Gilgal, For there I hated them. Because of the evil of their deeds I will drive them from My house; I will love them no more. All their princes are rebellious.

nkjv@Hosea:9:16 @ Ephraim is stricken, Their root is dried up; They shall bear no fruit. Yes, were they to bear children, I would kill the darlings of their womb."

nkjv@Hosea:9:17 @ My God will cast them away, Because they did not obey Him; And they shall be wanderers among the nations.

nkjv@Hosea:10:1 @ Israel empties his vine; He brings forth fruit for himself. According to the multitude of his fruit He has increased the altars; According to the bounty of his land They have embellished his sacred pillars.

nkjv@Hosea:10:2 @ Their heart is divided; Now they are held guilty. He will break down their altars; He will ruin their sacred pillars.

nkjv@Hosea:10:3 @ For now they say, "We have no king, Because we did not fear the LORD. And as for a king, what would he do for us?"

nkjv@Hosea:10:4 @ They have spoken words, Swearing falsely in making a covenant. Thus judgment springs up like hemlock in the furrows of the field.

nkjv@Hosea:10:5 @ The inhabitants of Samaria fear Because of the calf of Beth Aven. For its people mourn for it, And its priests shriek for it-- Because its glory has departed from it.

nkjv@Hosea:10:6 @ The idol also shall be carried to Assyria As a present for King Jareb. Ephraim shall receive shame, And Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

nkjv@Hosea:10:7 @ As for Samaria, her king is cut off Like a twig on the water.

nkjv@Hosea:10:8 @ Also the high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, Shall be destroyed. The thorn and thistle shall grow on their altars; They shall say to the mountains, "Cover us!" And to the hills, "Fall on us!"

nkjv@Hosea:10:9 @ "O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah; There they stood. The battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity Did not overtake them.

nkjv@Hosea:10:10 @ When it is My desire, I will chasten them. Peoples shall be gathered against them When I bind them for their two transgressions.

nkjv@Hosea:10:11 @ Ephraim is a trained heifer That loves to thresh grain; But I harnessed her fair neck, I will make Ephraim pull a plow. Judah shall plow; Jacob shall break his clods."

nkjv@Hosea:10:12 @ Sow for yourselves righteousness; Reap in mercy; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the LORD, Till He comes and rains righteousness on you.

nkjv@Hosea:10:13 @ You have plowed wickedness; You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, Because you trusted in your own way, In the multitude of your mighty men.

nkjv@Hosea:10:14 @ Therefore tumult shall arise among your people, And all your fortresses shall be plundered As Shalman plundered Beth Arbel in the day of battle-- A mother dashed in pieces upon her children.

nkjv@Hosea:10:15 @ Thus it shall be done to you, O Bethel, Because of your great wickedness. At dawn the king of Israel Shall be cut off utterly.