| Chapter 9
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| 1 | 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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2 | 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. |
| 4 | 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. |
| 5 | What will ye do in the solemn
day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD? |
| 6 | 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. |
| 7 | 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.
Luke 21:22
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| 8 | 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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9 | They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the
days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their
sins. |
| 10 | 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. |
| 11 | As for Ephraim, their glory
shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the
conception. |
| 12 | 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! |
| 13 | Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in
a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the
murderer. |
| 14 | Give them,
O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. |
| 15 | 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. |
| 16 | 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. |
| 17 | My God will cast them away,
because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the
nations. |
