Days of Punishment Have Come
aDo not be glad, O Israel, 1with rejoicing like the peoples!For you have bplayed the harlot, 2forsaking your God.You have loved harlots’ earnings on 3every threshing floor.Lit toLit away from your GodLit all threshing floors of grainIs 22:12, 13; Hos 10:5Hos 4:122 Threshing floor and wine press will anot feed them,And the new wine will deceive 1them.Lit herHos 2:93 They will not remain in athe land of Yahweh,But Ephraim will return to bEgypt,And in cAssyria they will eat dunclean food.Lev 25:23; Jer 2:7Hos 7:16; 8:13Hos 7:11Ezek 4:134 They will not pour out drink offerings of awine to Yahweh;bTheir sacrifices will not please Him.Their bread will 1be like 2mourners’ bread;All who eat of it will be cdefiled,For their bread will be for 3themselves alone;It will not enter the house of Yahweh.Lit be to themOr bread of misfortuneLit their appetiteEx 29:40Jer 6:20; Hos 8:13Hag 2:13, 145 aWhat will you do on the day of the appointed festivalAnd on the day of the bfeast of Yahweh?Is 10:3; Jer 5:31Hos 2:11; Joel 1:136 For behold, they will go because of destruction;Egypt will gather them up; aMemphis will bury them.Weeds will possess their desirable items of silver;bThorns will be in their tents.Is 19:13; Jer 2:16; 44:1; 46:14, 19; Ezek 30:13, 16Is 5:6; 7:23; Hos 10:8
7 The days of apunishment have come;The days of brecompense have come;1Let Israel know this!The prophet is an cignorant fool,The 2inspired man has dmadness,Because of the abundance of your einiquityAnd because your hostility has abounded.Or Israel will know itLit man of the spiritIs 10:3; Jer 10:15; Mic 7:4; Luke 21:22Is 34:8; Jer 16:18; 25:14Lam 2:14; Ezek 13:3, 10Is 44:25Ezek 14:9, 108 Ephraim was a watchman with my God, a prophet;Yet the snare of a bird catcher is in all his ways,And there is only hostility in the house of his God.9 They have dug adeep 1in corruptionAs in the days of bGibeah;He will cremember their iniquity;He will punish their sins.Lit they have corruptedIs 31:6Judg 19:12, 16-30; Hos 10:9Hos 7:2; 8:13
Grapes in the Wilderness
10 I found Israel like agrapes in the wilderness;I saw your fathers as the bearliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season.But they came to cBaal-peor and devoted themselves to 1dshame,And they became as edetestable as that which they loved.BaalMic 7:1Jer 24:2Num 25:1-5; Ps 106:28, 29Jer 11:13; Hos 4:18Ps 115:8; Ezek 20:811 As for Ephraim, their aglory will fly away like a bird—No birth, no pregnancy, and no conception!Hos 4:7; 10:512 Though they bring up their children,Yet I will bereave them 1until not a man is left.Surely, awoe to them indeed when I depart from them!Lit without a manDeut 31:17; Hos 7:1313 Ephraim, as I have seen,Is planted in a pasture like aTyre;But Ephraim will bring out his children for killing.Ezek 26:1-2114 Give them, O Yahweh—what will You give?Give them a 1amiscarrying womb and dry breasts.Lit bereavingHos 9:11
15 All their evil is at aGilgal;Indeed, I came to hate them there!Because of the bevil of their deedsI will drive them out of My house!I will love them no more;All their princes are crebels.Hos 4:15; 12:11Hos 4:9; 7:2; 12:2Is 1:23; Hos 5:216 aEphraim is stricken; their root is dried up;They will bear bno fruit.Even though they bear children,I will put to death the cdesirable ones of their womb.Hos 5:11Hos 8:7Ezek 24:2117 My God will despise themBecause they have anot listened to Him;And they will be bthose who flee among the nations.Hos 4:10Hos 7:13