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Chapter
9
- 9:1
- 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.
- 9:2
- The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the
new wine shall fail in her.
- 9:3
- They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim shall
return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
- 9:4
- 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.
- 9:5
- What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the
feast of the LORD?
- 9:6
- 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.
- 9:7
- 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.
- 9:8
- 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.
- 9:9
- They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of
Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit
their sins.
- 9:10
- 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.
- 9:11
- As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from
the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
- 9:12
- 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!
- 9:13
- Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place:
but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
- 9:14
- Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying
womb and dry breasts.
- 9:15
- 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.
- 9:16
- 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.
- 9:17
- My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken
unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
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