Hosea

 1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a ^awhoring from thy God, thou hast loved a ^breward upon every ^ccornfloor.

 2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.

 3 They shall not dwell in the Lord’s ^aland; but Ephraim shall return to ^bEgypt, and they shall eat ^cunclean things in Assyria.

 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.

 5 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the Lord?

 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 ^atabernacles.

 7 The days of ^avisitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a ^bfool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

 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 They have deeply ^acorrupted themselves, as in the days of ^bGibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

 10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the ^afig tree at her first time: but they went to ^bBaal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their ^cabominations were according as they loved.

 11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

 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 ^adepart from them!

 13 Ephraim, as I saw ^aTyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.

 14 Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

 15 All their wickedness is in ^aGilgal: 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.

 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.

 17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be ^awanderers among the nations.