Hosea 9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Hosea 9Punishment for Israel’s Sin

1 as other nations do,

for you have prostituted yourself, departing from your God.

You have loved a prostitute’s pay

on all threshing floors.

2

thorns shall be in their tents.

7

“The prophet is a fool;

the man of the spirit is mad!”

Because of your great iniquity,

your hostility is great.

8

but now Ephraim must lead out his children for slaughter.

14Give them, O Lord—

what will you give?

Give them a miscarrying womb

and dry breasts.

15 Isa 1.23; Hos 4.9; 7.2; 12.2 Every evil of theirs began at Gilgal;

there I came to hate them.

Because of the wickedness of their deeds

I will drive them out of my house.

I will love them no more;

all their officials are rebels.

16 v 12 ; Hos 5.11; 8.7Ephraim is stricken,

their root is dried up,

they shall bear no fruit.

Even though they give birth,

I will kill the cherished offspring of their womb.

17 Deut 28.65; Hos 4.10 Because they have not listened to him,

my God will reject them;

they shall become wanderers among the nations.