Hosea:9
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Rejoice not ,
O Israel ,
for joy ,
as other people :
for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God ,
thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor .
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The floor and the winepress shall not feed them ,
and the new wine shall fail in her .
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They shall not dwell in the LORD '
S land ;
but Ephraim shall return to Egypt ,
and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria .
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They shall not offer 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 for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD .
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What will ye do in the solemn day ,
and in the day of the feast of the LORD ?
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For ,
lo ,
they are gone because of destruction :
Egypt shall gather them up ,
Memphis shall bury them :
the pleasant places for their silver ,
nettles shall possess them :
thorns shall be in their tabernacles .
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The days of visitation are come ,
the days of recompence are come ;
Israel shall know it :
the prophet is a fool ,
the spiritual man is mad ,
for the multitude of thine iniquity ,
and the great hatred .
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The watchman of Ephraim was with my God :
but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways ,
and hatred in the house of his God .
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They have deeply corrupted themselves ,
as in the days of Gibeah :
therefore he will remember their iniquity ,
he will visit their sins .
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I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness ;
I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time :
but they went to Baalpeor ,
and separated themselves unto that shame ;
and their abominations were according as they loved .
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As for Ephraim ,
their glory shall fly away like a bird ,
from the birth ,
and from the womb ,
and from the conception .
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Though they bring up their children ,
yet will I bereave them ,
that there shall not be a man left :
yea ,
woe also to them when I depart from them !
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Ephraim ,
as I saw Tyrus ,
is planted in a pleasant place :
but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer .
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Give them ,
O LORD :
what wilt thou give ?
give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts .
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All their wickedness is in Gilgal :
for there I hated them :
for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house ,
I will love them no more :
all their princes are revolters .
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Ephraim is smitten ,
their root is dried up ,
they shall bear no fruit :
yea ,
though they bring forth ,
yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb .
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My God will cast them away ,
because they did not hearken unto him :
and they shall be wanderers among the nations .