New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures — With References (Rbi8, en_US, 1984)

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Hosea, 9

1 “Do not rejoice, O Israel. Do not act joyful like the peoples. For by fornication you have gone from alongside your God. You have loved gifts of hire on all the threshing floors of grain.

2 Threshing floor and winepress do not feed them, and sweet wine itself proves disappointing to her.

3 They will not continue dwelling in the land of Jehovah, and Eʹphra·im must return to Egypt, and in As·syrʹi·a they will eat what is unclean.

4 They will not continue pouring out wine to Jehovah. And their sacrifices will not be gratifying to him; they are like the bread of times of mourning to them; all those eating it will defile themselves. For their bread is for their own soul;*1 it will not come into the house of Jehovah.

  1. Or, “for their own selves.” Heb., lenaph·shamʹ; Gr., tais psy·khaisʹ au·tonʹ; Lat., aʹni·mae i·psoʹrum. See App 4A.

5 What will YOU people do in the day of meeting and in the day of the festival of Jehovah?

6 For, look! they will have to go because of despoiling. Egypt itself will collect them together; Memʹphis,*1 for its part, will bury them. As for their desirable things of silver, nettles themselves will take possession of them; thorny bushes will be in their tents.

  1. “Memphis.” Gr. and Lat., Memʹphis; Heb., Moph; T(Aram.), leMa·phehsʹ; Syr., u·Ma·phes.

7 “The days of being given attention must come; the days of the due payment must come. Those of Israel will know [it]. The prophet will be foolish, the man of inspired expression*1 will be maddened on account of the abundance of your error, even animosity being abundant.”

  1. Or, “man of inspiration.” Lit., “man of the spirit.” Heb., ʼish ha·ruʹach; Gr., anʹthro·pos ho pneu·ma·to·phoʹros, “man bearing the spirit; man inspired”; Vgc(Lat.), viʹrum spi·ri·tu·aʹlem.

8 The watchman of Eʹphra·im was with my God.*1 As regards a prophet, there is the trap of a birdcatcher on all his ways; there is an animosity in the house of his God.

  1. “My God.” Heb., ʼElo·haiʹ.

9 They have gone down deep in bringing ruin,*1 as in the days of Gibʹe·ah. He will remember their error; he will give attention to their sins.

  1. Lit., “They have made [it] deep, they have brought [it] to ruin,” M; possibly, by a correction, “They have made his pit deep.”

10 “Like grapes in the wilderness I found Israel. Like the early fig on a fig tree in its beginning I saw the forefathers of YOU people. They themselves went in to Baʹal of Peʹor,*1 and they proceeded to dedicate themselves to*2 the shameful thing, and they came to be disgusting like [the thing of] their love.

  1. Or, “Baal-peor.”

  2. Or, “to withdraw themselves to; to hold themselves separate for.”

11 As regards Eʹphra·im, like a flying creature their glory flies away, so that there is no giving birth, and no [pregnant] belly and no conception.

12 For although they bring up their sons, I will also bereave them of children so that there will be no man; because—woe also to them when I turn away from them!

13 Eʹphra·im, whom I have seen like Tyre planted in a pasture ground, even Eʹphra·im is destined to a bringing out of his sons even to a killer.”

14 Give to them, O Jehovah, what you should give. Give them a miscarrying womb and breasts shriveling up.

15 “All their badness was in Gilʹgal, for there I had to hate them. On account of the evil of their dealings I shall drive them away from my own house. I will not continue on loving them. All their princes are acting stubborn.

16 Eʹphra·im must be struck down. Their very root must dry up. There will be no fruit that they produce. Also, in case they bring to birth, I will even put to death the desirable things of their belly.”

17 My God*1 will reject them, for they have not listened to him, and they will become fugitives among the nations.

  1. “My God.” Heb., ʼElo·haiʹ.

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