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Hosea 9

17 aligned verses; 17 with wording or punctuation differences .

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Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations , for you have played the harlot against your God ; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor .
` Rejoice not , O Israel, be not joyful like the peoples , For thou hast gone a-whoring from thy God , Thou hast loved a gift near all floors of corn .
The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.
Floor and wine-press do not delight them, And new wine doth fail in her,
They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria .
They do not abide in the land of Jehovah, And turned back hath Ephraim ` to ' Egypt , And in Asshur an unclean thing they eat .
They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD , and their sacrifices will not please Him, but will be to them like the bread of mourners ; all who eat will be defiled. For their bread will be for themselves ; it will not enter the house of the LORD .
They pour not out wine to Jehovah , Nor are they sweet to Him, Their sacrifices `are' as bread of mourners to them, All eating it are unclean: For their bread `is' for themselves , It doth not come into the house of Jehovah .
What will you do on the appointed day , on the day of the LORD’s feast ?
What do ye at the day appointed? And at the day of Jehovah's festival ?
For even if they flee destruction, Egypt will gather them and Memphis will bury them . Their precious silver will be taken over by thistles , and thorns will overrun their tents.
For , lo, they have gone because of destruction, Egypt gathereth them , Moph burieth them , The desirable things of their silver, Nettles possess them -- a thorn `is' in their tents.
The days of punishment have come ; the days of retribution have arrived— let Israel know it. The prophet is called a fool, and the inspired man insane , because of the greatness of your iniquity and hostility .
Come in have the days of inspection, Come in have the days of recompence, Israel doth know ! a fool `is' the prophet , Mad `is' the man of the Spirit , Because of the abundance of thine iniquity , And great `is' the hatred .
The prophet is Ephraim’s watchman, along with my God, yet the snare of the fowler lies on all his paths. Hostility is in the house of his God !
Ephraim is looking `away' from My God, The prophet! a snare of a fowler `is' over all his ways, Hatred ` is ' in the house of his God .
They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah ; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.
They have gone deep -- have done corruptly, As ` in ' the days of Gibeah , He doth remember their iniquity, He doth inspect their sins.
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness . I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved .
As grapes in a wilderness I found Israel, As the first-fruit in a fig - tree , at its beginning, I have seen your fathers, They -- they have gone in ` to ' Baal-Peor, And are separated to a shameful thing , And are become abominable like their love .
Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird , with no birth, no pregnancy , and no conception.
Ephraim `is' as a fowl, Fly away doth their honour , without birth, And without womb , and without conception.
Even if they raise their children , I will bereave them of each one. Yes , woe be to them when I turn away from them !
For though they nourish their sons , I have made them childless -- without man , Surely also, wo to them , when I turn aside from them .
I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre , planted in a meadow. But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter .
Ephraim! when I have looked to the rock , Is planted in comeliness, And Ephraim `is' to bring out unto a slayer his sons .
Give them, O LORD— what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!
Give to them, Jehovah -- what dost Thou give? Give to them miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.
All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them . I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them ; all their leaders are rebellious .
All their evil `is' in Gilgal, Surely there I have hated them , Because of the evil of their doings, Out of My house I do drive them, I add not to love them , all their heads ` are ' apostates .
Ephraim is struck down; their root is withered; they cannot bear fruit . Even if they bear children , I will slay the darlings of their wombs .
Ephraim hath been smitten, Their root hath dried up, fruit they yield not , Yea, though they bring forth, I have put to death the desired of their womb .
My God will reject them because they have not obeyed Him ; and they shall be wanderers among the nations .
Reject them doth my God, Because they have not hearkened to Him , And they are wanderers among nations !

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