Punishment for Israel - Do not rejoice, Israel; do not be jubilant like the other nations. For you have been unfaithful to your God; you love the wages of a prostitute at every threshing floor. Threshing floors and winepresses will not feed the people; the new wine will fail them. They will not remain in the LORD’s land; Ephraim will return to …

9 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor. 2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.

The LORD Will Punish Israel - Rejoice not, O Israel! Exult not like the peoples; for you have played the whore, forsaking your God. You have loved a prostitute's wages on all threshing floors. Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them. They shall not remain in the land of the LORD, but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food ...

Judgment of Israel’s Sin - Do not rejoice, O Israel, with joy like other peoples, For you have played the harlot against your God. You have made love for hire on every threshing floor. The threshing floor and the winepress Shall not feed them, And the new wine shall fail in her. They shall not dwell in the Lord’s land, But Ephraim shall return to Egypt, And shall eat unclean things in ...

9 They have deeply corrupted (perverted) themselves As in the days of Gibeah. The Lord will remember their wickedness and guilt; He will punish their sins.

Hosea 9:1 Lit away from your God; Hosea 9:1 Lit all threshing floors of grain; Hosea 9:2 Lit her; Hosea 9:4 Or they offer to Him their; Hosea 9:4 Lit bread of mourning; Hosea 9:4 Lit their soul; Hosea 9:7 Or Israel will know this; Hosea 9:7 Lit man of the spirit; Hosea 9:7 Or persecution; Hosea 9:8 Or persecution; Hosea 9:10 I.e., Baal; Hosea 9 ...

Hosea Announces Israel’s Punishment - O people of Israel, do not rejoice as other nations do. For you have been unfaithful to your God, hiring yourselves out like prostitutes, worshiping other gods on ...

9 1-6 Don’t waste your life in wild orgies, Israel. Don’t party away your life with the heathen. You walk away from your God at the drop of a hat and like a whore sell yourself promiscuously at every sex-and-religion party on the street. All that party food won’t fill you up. You’ll end up hungrier than ever.

Punishment for Israel’s Sin - Do not rejoice, O Israel! Do not exult as other nations do, for you have prostituted yourself, departing from your God. You have loved a prostitute’s pay on all threshing floors. Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them. They shall not remain in the land of the LORD, …

9 O Israel, rejoice no more as others do, for you have deserted your God and sacrificed to other gods on every threshing floor. 2 Therefore your harvests will be small; your grapes will blight upon the vine.