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Hosea 9
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Chapter 9
The sorrows of exile
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Let us have no rejoicing, Israel, no exulting like the other peoples; for you have deserted God to play the whore, you have enjoyed the prostitute’s pay on every threshing-floor.
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Neither floor nor vat will nourish them, the new wine will disappoint them.
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They will no longer live in the land of Yahweh, Ephraim will have to go back to Egypt, and in Assyria they will eat food that is unclean.
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They will pour libations of wine to Yahweh no longer, nor offer sacrifice to him; their bread will be like mourners’ bread, all those who eat it will become unclean; for their’ bread will serve only for themselves, it must not enter the house of Yahweh.
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What will you do on the day of solemn festival, the day of the feast of Yahweh?
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Why, they will have gone, gone from the devastation. Egypt will receive them, Memphis bury them, nettles will inherit their treasures of silver, and brambles invade their tents.
Persecution, the prophet’s reward for foretelling the punishment
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Now the days of reckoning have come, the days of reprisals are here. ‘The prophet is mad,’ Israel protests ‘this inspired fellow is raving.’-Ah yes, but only because your iniquity is so great, your apostasy so grave.
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Ephraim watches the prophet’s tent, traps are set for him on all his paths,
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in the house of his God enmity awaits him. These men are as steeped in corruption as in the days of Gibeah; Yahweh will remember their iniquity, he will punish their sins.
Punishment for the crime at Baal-peor
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It was like finding grapes in the wilderness when I found Israel, like seeing early fruit on the fig tree when I saw your fathers; but when they reached Baal-peor they devoted themselves to shame and became as hateful as the thing they loved.
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The glory of Ephraim will fly away like a bird: no giving birth, no pregnancy, no conceiving.
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And if they rear sons, I will take these from them before they come to manhood; trouble for them indeed when I abandon them.
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Ephraim, I see, has made his sons a prey, Ephraim must lead his sons to the slaughter house.
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Give them, Yahweh – what are you to give? – give them wombs that miscarry, and dried-up breasts.
Punishment for the crime at Gilgal
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Their wickedness appeared in full at Gilgal[*a], there I came to hate them. Because of their wicked deeds I will drive them out of my house; I will love them no longer, for their leaders are all rebels.
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Ephraim is cut down, their roots are withered; they will bear no fruit. And if they bear children, I will kill the darlings of their womb.
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Because they have not listened to him, my God will cast them off and they will be wanderers throughout the nations.
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