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Hosea 9

17 aligned verses; 17 with wording or punctuation differences .

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Verse KJV King James Version YLT Young's Literal Translation
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 .
` 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 floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her .
Floor and wine-press do not delight them, And new wine doth fail in her ,
They shall not dwell in the LORD's land ; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things 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 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 .
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 ye do in the solemn day , and in the day of the feast of the LORD ?
What do ye at the day appointed? And at the day of Jehovah's festival ?
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 tabernacles .
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 visitation are come , the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad , for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
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 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.
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 : therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit 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 firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor , and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as 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 .
As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird , from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
Ephraim `is' as a fowl , Fly away doth their honour , without birth, And without womb, and without conception.
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 depart 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 .
Ephraim , as I saw Tyrus , is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer .
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 wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Give to them, Jehovah -- what dost Thou give? Give to them miscarrying womb , and dry breasts.
All their wickedness is in Gilgal : 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 .
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 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.
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 cast them away , because they did not hearken unto 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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