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Ephraim
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Hosea 9:1
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Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like
the nations! For you have played the harlot, forsaking your God. You have loved
harlots' earnings on every threshing floor. |
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Hosea 9:2
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Threshing floor and wine press will not feed
them, And the new wine will fail them. |
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Hosea 9:3
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They will not remain in the LORD'S land, But
Ephraim will return to Egypt, And in Assyria they will eat unclean food. |
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Hosea 9:4
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They will not pour out drink offerings of wine
to the LORD, Their sacrifices will not please Him. Their bread will be like mourners'
bread; All who eat of it will be defiled, For their bread will be for themselves
alone; It will not enter the house of the LORD. |
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Hosea 9:5
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What will you do on the day of the appointed
festival And on the day of the feast of the LORD? |
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Hosea 9:6
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For behold, they will go because of destruction;
Egypt will gather them up, Memphis will bury them. Weeds will take over their
treasures of silver; Thorns will be in their tents. |
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Hosea 9:7
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The days of punishment have come, The days of
retribution have come; Let Israel know this! The prophet is a fool, The inspired
man is demented, Because of the grossness of your iniquity, And because your hostility
is so great. |
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Hosea 9:8
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Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet;
Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways, And there is only hostility
in the house of his God. |
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Hosea 9:9
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They have gone deep in depravity As in the days
of Gibeah; He will remember their iniquity, He will punish their sins. |
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Hosea 9:10
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I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness;
I saw your forefathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season.
But they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame, And they became as
detestable as that which they loved. |
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Hosea 9:11
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As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like
a bird-- No birth, no pregnancy and no conception! |
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Hosea 9:12
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Though they bring up their children, Yet I will
bereave them until not a man is left. Yes, woe to them indeed when I depart from
them! |
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Hosea 9:13
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Ephraim, as I have seen, Is planted in a pleasant
meadow like Tyre; But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter. |
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Hosea 9:14
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Give them, O LORD--what will You give? Give
them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. |
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Hosea 9:15
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All their evil is at Gilgal; Indeed, I came
to hate them there! Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them
out of My house! I will love them no more; All their princes are rebels. |
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Hosea 9:16
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Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up,
They will bear no fruit. Even though they bear children, I will slay the precious
ones of their womb. |
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Hosea 9:17
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My God will cast them away Because they have
not listened to Him; And they will be wanderers among the nations. |
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