Hosea 9

Do not rejoice, Israel, with jubilation like the nations;

For you were unfaithful to your God.

You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.

²The threshing floor and the winepress will not feed them,

And the new wine will fail her.

³They will not dwell in Allah's land;

But Ephraim will return to Egypt,

And they will eat unclean food in Assyria.

⁴They will not pour out wine offerings to Allah,

Neither will they be pleasing to him.

Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;

All who eat of it will be polluted;

For their bread will be for their appetite.

It will not come into the house of Allah.

⁵What will you do in the day of solemn assembly,

And in the day of the feast of Allah?

⁶For, behold, they have gone away from destruction.

Egypt will gather them up.

Memphis will bury them.

Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver.

Thorns will be in their tents.

⁷The days of visitation have come.

The days of reckoning have come.

Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool,

And the man who is inspired to be insane,

Because of the abundance of your sins,

And because your hostility is great.

⁸A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God.

A fowler's snare is on all of his paths,

And hostility in the house of his God.

⁹They have deeply corrupted themselves,

As in the days of Gibeah.

He will remember their iniquity.

He will punish them for their sins.

¹⁰I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness.

I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season;

But they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing,

And became abominable like that which they loved.

¹¹As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird.

There will be no birth, none with child, and no conception.

¹²Though they bring up their children,

Yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left.

Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!

¹³Ephraim, like I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place;

But Ephraim will bring out his children to the killer.

¹⁴Give them--Allah what will you give?

Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

¹⁵"All their wickedness is in Gilgal;

For there I hated them.

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.

¹⁶Ephraim is struck.

Their root has dried up.

They will bear no fruit.

Even though they bring forth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb."

¹⁷My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him;

And they will be wanderers among the nations.