jps - Hosea:9:1-10

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.