Hosea 9장
Exile without Worship
1
Rejoice not, O Israel, exult not like the nations! For you have been unfaithful to your God, loving a harlot's hire upon every threshing floor.
2
Threshing floor and wine press shall not nourish them, the new wine shall fail them.
3
They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and in Assyria they shall eat unclean food.
4
They shall not pour libations of wine to the LORD, or proffer their sacrifices before him. Theirs will be like mourners' bread, that makes unclean all who eat of it; Such food as they have shall be for themselves; it cannot enter the house of the LORD.
5
What will you do on the festival day, the day of the LORD'S feast?
6
When they go from the ruins, Egypt shall gather them in, Memphis shall bury them. Weeds shall overgrow their silver treasures, and thorns invade their tents.
7
They have come, the days of punishment! they have come, the days of recompense! Let Israel know it! "The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is mad!" Because your iniquity is great, great, too, is your hostility.
The Prophet Ridiculed
8
A prophet is Ephraim's watchman with God, yet a fowler's snare is on all his ways, hostility in the house of his God.
9
They have sunk to the depths of corruption, as in the days of Gibeah; He shall remember their iniquity and punish their sins.
Crime of Baal-peor
10
Like grapes in the desert, I found Israel; Like the first fruits of the fig tree in its prime, I considered your fathers. When they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the Shame, they became as abhorrent as the thing they loved.
11
The glory of Ephraim flies away like a bird: no birth, no carrying in the womb, no conception. Were they to bear children, I would slay the darlings of their womb.
12
Even though they bring up their children, I will make them childless, till not one is left. Woe to them when I turn away from them!
13
Ephraim, as I saw, was like Tyre, planted in a beauteous spot; But Ephraim shall bring out his children to the slayer.
14
Give them, O LORD! give them what? Give them an unfruitful womb, and dry breasts!
Crime of Gilgal
15
All their wickedness is in Gilgal; yes, there they incurred my hatred. Because of their wicked deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no longer; all their princes are rebels.
16
Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit.
17
My God will disown them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations.
Hosea 9장
