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Hosea 9

Of the hunger and captivity of Israél.
1.aRejoyce not, ô Israél for joy as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God: thou hast loved ba reward upon every corn floor.
2.cThe floor, and the wine press shal not feed them, and the new wine shal fail in her.
3.They will not dwell in the Lord’s land, but Ephráim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean things in Asshúr.
4.They shal not offer dwine to the Lord, neither shal their sacrifices be pleasant unto him: but they shalbe unto them as the bread of mourners: all that eat thereof, shal be polluted: for their bread efor their souls shal not come into the House of the Lord.
5.What will ye do fthen in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the Lord?
6.For lo, they are gone from gdestruction: but Egypt shal gather them up, and Memphis shal bury them: the nettles shal possess the pleasant places of their silver, and the throne shalbe in their tabernacles.
7.The days of visitation are come: the days of recompense are come: Israél shal know it: hthe Prophet is a fool: the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity: therefore the hatred is great.
8.The watchman of Ephráim ishould be with my God: but the Prophet is the snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the House of his God.
9.They kare deeply set: they are corrupt as in the days of Gibeáh: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
10.I found Israél like lgrapes in the wilderness: I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-Peór, and separated them selves unto that shame, and their abominations were according to mtheir lovers.
11.Ephráim their glory shal flee away like a bird: from the birth nand from the womb, and from the conception.
12.Though they bring up their children, yet I will deprive them from being men: yea, wo to them, when I depart from them.
13.Ephráim, as I saw, is as a tree oin Tyrus planted in a cottage: but Ephráim shal bring forth his children to the murtherer.
14.O Lord, give them: what wilt thou give them? give them a pbarren womb and dry breasts.
15.All their wickedness is in qGilgál: for there do I hate them: for the wickedness of their inventions, I will cast them out of mine House: I will love them no more: all their princes are rebels.
16.Ephráim is smitten, their root is dryed up: they can bring no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the dearest of their body.
17.My God will cast them away, because they did not obey him: and they shal wander among the nations.

Notes

1-a.
For though all other people should escape, yet you shall be punished.
1-b.
You have committed idolatry in hope of reward, and to have your barns filled, Jer. 44.17, as an harlot that had rather live by playing the whore then to be entertained of her own husband.
2-c.
There outward things that you seek, shall be taken from you.
4-d.
All their doings both touching policy and religion shall be rejected as things polluted.
4-e.
The meat offering which they offered for themselves.
5-f.
When the Lord shall take away all the occasions of serving him, which shall be the most grievous point of your captivity, when you shall see yourselves cut off from God.
6-g.
Though they think to escape by fleeing the destruction that is at hand, yet shall they be destroyed in the place whether they flee for succour.
7-h.
Then they shall know that they were deluded by them who challenged to themselves to be their Prophets and spiritual men.
8-i.
The Prophet’s duty is to bring men to God and not to be a snare to pull them from God.
9-k.
This people is so rooted in their wickedness, that Gibeah which was like to Sodom was never more corrupt, Jud. 19.22.
10-l.
Meaning, that he so esteemed them and delighted in them.
10-m.
They were as abominable unto me, as their lovers and idols.
11-n.
Signifying that God would destroy their children by these sundry means, and so consume them by little and little.
13-o.
As they kept tender plants in their houses in Tyrus to preserve them from the cold air of the sea, so was Ephráim at the first unto me, but now I will give him to the slaughter.
14-p.
The Prophet seeing the great plagues of God toward Ephraim, prays to God to make them barren, rather then that this great slaughter should come upon their children.
15-q.
The chief cause of their destruction is that they commit idolatry and corrupt my religion in Gilgal.