1 Do not rejoice and celebrate, Israel, like other nations, for you have deserted your God. You are fond of prostitution gifts and run to every threshing floor where there is wheat.
2 This is why threshing floors and vats will not feed you; new wine will disappoint you.
3 No longer will you remain in Yahweh's land. Ephraim will return to Egypt - in fact to Assyria, where they will eat unclean food.
4 No more will they be able to pour out the wine offering for Yahweh and no longer will they sacrifice to him. They will have only bread for mourners; all who eat it will be defiled. This food will be for themselves and it will not be taken into the house of Yahweh.
5 What shall you do on the feast? You will leave but not for the pilgrimage to Yahweh; rather you will flee because of the invaders.
6 Egypt will gather you and Memphis entomb you. Nettles will take over your treasures of silver and thorns creep over your tents.
7 The time of punishment has come, the day of retribution is here. The Israelites will know it. The prophets will go out of their mind; the seers will become like mad men because your defeat will be as great as your sins have been.
8 Ephraim watches before my God; his prophets try to stop the enemy on every path to protect the house of their gods.
9 Yet they are as corrupted as they were long ago in Gibeah. Yahweh will remember their wickedness and punish their sin.
10 I found Israel like wild grapes in the desert, I saw your fathers like the first fruits on a fig tree. But no sooner had they come to Baal-peor than they gave themselves to the idol; and they became as worthless as their dirty god.
11 The glory of Ephraim will flee away like a bird; it has died stillborn, miscarried, not even conceived.
12 Had they brought out children, I would take them off before they were adults, for woe to them when I abandon them!
13 I have seen that Ephraim will make his sons like a game; he will send his sons to be slaughtered.
14 Give them, Yahweh, what you will; give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that are dry.
15 It is at Gilgal that their wickedness is seen. There I hated them. I will expel them from my House because of their evil conduct. I will love them no longer for all their leaders are rebels.
16 Ephraim is blighted; his root is withered; he will produce no fruit. Even when they are with child, the child will die in the womb.
17 My God will reject them because they did not listen; he will make them wander among the nations.
Versículos relacionados com Hosea, 9:
Hosea Chapter 9 deals with the imminent punishment that God will bring about the people of Israel because of their sins and infidelity. Israel had become a rotten fruit, and God would reject them and leave them alone. Following are five selected verses from other parts of the Bible that address topics related to this chapter:
Jeremiah 17:10: "I, the Lord, squad my heart, I prove the thoughts; and this to give each one according to his ways, according to the fruit of his works." This verse talks about God's righteousness and how he judges each one according to his works, a theme present in Hosea 9.
Proverbs 1:31: "Therefore, they will eat the fruit of their way, and shall be bound of their own advice." This verse highlights how the choices and actions of the people of Israel have resulted in their own destruction.
Jeremiah 2:19: "Your own malice shall punish you, and your apostasies will rebuke you; you know, and see, that evil and how bitter is the Lord, your God, and do not have my fear in you, says The Lord, the god of armies. " This verse talks about the punishment that comes as a result of infidelity and apostasy, a theme present in Hosea 9.
Psalm 9:16: "The Lord manifested himself, executing judgment; he destroyed the wicked and erased his name forever." This verse talks about God's righteousness and how it destroys the wicked, something the people of Israel were about to experience.
Psalm 78:31-32: "It was then that the wrath of God lit against them; He killed the strongest among them, and wounded the young people of Israel. Nevertheless, they continued to sin, and did not believe in their wonders . " This verse talks about the rebellion and infidelity of the people of Israel, who continued to sin despite the punishment of God, a theme present in Hosea 9.
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