Hosea 9 (NET)

Hosea 9:1¹O Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly like the nations, for you are unfaithful to your God. You love to receive a prostitute’s wages on all the floors where you thresh your grain.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 10:5Hos 4:12Isa 17:11Jas 4:16Jer 44:17Amos 3:2Amos 6:13Amos 6:6-7Ezek 16:47-48Ezek 20:32

Hosea 9:2²Threshing floors and wine vats will not feed the people, and new wine only deceives them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 2:9Amos 4:5-11Hag 1:9Hag 2:16Hos 2:12Isa 24:7-12Joel 1:3-7Joel 1:9-13Mic 6:13-16

Hosea 9:3³They will not remain in the Lord ’s land. Ephraim will return to Egypt; they will eat ritually unclean food in Assyria.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 4:13Hos 8:13Lev 25:23Jer 2:7Hos 7:111 Kgs 9:72 Kgs 17:6Dan 1:8Deut 28:63Deut 4:26

Hosea 9:4⁴They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the Lord; they will not please him with their sacrifices. Their sacrifices will be like bread eaten while in mourning; all those who eat them will make themselves ritually unclean. For their bread will be only to satisfy their appetite; it will not come into the temple of the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 26:14Hos 8:13Jer 6:20Hag 2:13-14Ezek 24:17Hos 3:4Joel 2:14Amos 4:4-5Amos 5:22Amos 8:11-12

Hosea 9:5⁵So what will you do on the festival day, on the festival days of the Lord?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 10:3Hos 2:11Jer 5:31Joel 1:13

Hosea 9:6⁶Look! Even if they flee from the destruction, Egypt will take hold of them, and Memphis will bury them. The weeds will inherit the silver they treasure — thorn bushes will occupy their homes.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 10:8Isa 5:6Isa 7:23Hos 7:16Hos 8:13Hos 9:31 Sam 13:62 Kgs 13:7Deut 28:63-64Hos 11:11

Hosea 9:7⁷The time of judgment is about to arrive! The time of retribution is imminent! Israel will be humbled! The prophet is considered a fool — the inspired man is viewed as a madman — because of the multitude of your sins and your intense animosity.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 26:24-25Mic 7:42 Kgs 9:11Mark 3:212 Cor 5:13Ezek 13:3Ezek 14:9-10Isa 10:3Jer 10:15Lam 2:14

Hosea 9:8⁸The prophet is a watchman over Ephraim on behalf of God, yet traps are laid for him along all his paths; animosity rages against him in the land of his God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 3:17Hos 5:1Ezek 33:7Isa 62:6John 15:24Lam 4:13Mic 7:41 Kgs 22:221 Kgs 22:282 Kgs 13:21

Hosea 9:9⁹They have sunk deep into corruption as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their wrongdoing. He will repay them for their sins.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 10:9Judg 19:16-20:21Hos 8:13Isa 31:6Isa 24:5

Hosea 9:10¹⁰When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness. I viewed your ancestors like an early fig on a fig tree in its first season. Then they came to Baal Peor and they dedicated themselves to shame— they became as detestable as what they loved.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 11:13Hos 4:14Num 25:1-18Ezek 20:8Hos 2:15Jer 2:2-3Mic 7:1Ps 106:28-291 Kgs 16:31Amos 4:5

Hosea 9:11¹¹Ephraim will be like a bird; what they value will fly away. They will not bear children— they will not enjoy pregnancy— they will not even conceive!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 28:18Gen 41:52Hos 10:5Hos 4:7Hos 9:14Amos 1:13Deut 28:57Deut 33:17Eccl 6:3Gen 48:16-20

Hosea 9:12¹²Even if they raise their children, I will take away every last one of them. Woe to them! For I will turn away from them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 7:13Deut 31:17Deut 32:25Hos 9:161 Sam 16:141 Sam 28:15-162 Kgs 17:182 Kgs 17:23Deut 28:32Deut 28:41-42

Hosea 9:13¹³Ephraim, as I have seen, has given their children for prey; Ephraim will bear his sons for slaughter.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 26:1-21Ezek 27:32 Kgs 15:16Amos 7:17Hos 10:14Hos 13:16Hos 13:8Hos 9:16Jer 9:21

Hosea 9:14¹⁴Give them, O Lord — what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry, and breasts that cannot nurse!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 23:291 Cor 7:26Luke 21:23Hos 9:11Hos 9:13Hos 9:16Job 21:10Mark 13:17Matt 24:19

Hosea 9:15¹⁵Because of all their evil in Gilgal, I hate them there. On account of their evil deeds, I will drive them out of my land. I will no longer love them; all their rulers are rebels.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 4:15Isa 1:231 Sam 7:16Amos 5:5Hos 12:11Josh 4:19-24Mic 6:5Zeph 3:3Lev 26:301 Kgs 9:7-9

Hosea 9:16¹⁶Ephraim will be struck down — their root will be dried up; they will not yield any fruit. Even if they do bear children, I will kill their precious offspring.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 9:11-13Ezek 24:21Isa 5:24Hos 5:11Hos 8:7Isa 40:24Job 18:16Mal 4:1

Hosea 9:17¹⁷My God will reject them, for they have not obeyed him; so they will be fugitives among the nations.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 28:64-65Hos 7:13Acts 3:23Isa 48:18Mic 7:7Zech 1:4Zech 7:11-14Amos 9:9Hos 4:10Jer 26:4-6