Hosea 9

1Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.Cross-references: Isa 17:11 · Isa 22:12 · Jer 44:17 · Lam 4:21 · Ezek 16:47 · Ezek 20:32 · +12 more

2The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them, and the new wine will fail her.Cross-references: Isa 24:7 · Hos 2:9 · Hos 2:12 · Joel 1:3 · Joel 1:9 · Amos 4:5 · +3 more

3They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.Cross-references: Lev 18:28 · Lev 20:22 · Lev 25:23 · Deut 4:26 · Deut 28:63 · Deut 28:68 · +15 more

4They won’t pour out wine offerings to Yahweh, neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted; for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into Yahweh’s house.Cross-references: Ex 40:23 · Lev 17:11 · Lev 21:6 · Lev 21:8 · Lev 21:17 · Lev 21:21 · +22 more

5What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of Yahweh?Cross-references: Isa 10:3 · Jer 5:31 · Hos 2:11 · Joel 1:13

6For, behold, when they flee destruction, Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.Cross-references: Deut 28:63 · 1Sam 13:6 · 2Ki 13:7 · Ps 107:34 · Prov 24:31 · Isa 5:6 · +13 more

7The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.Cross-references: 2Ki 9:11 · Isa 10:3 · Isa 26:11 · Isa 34:8 · Isa 44:25 · Jer 6:14 · +28 more

8A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.Cross-references: 1Ki 17:1 · 1Ki 18:1 · 1Ki 18:19 · 1Ki 18:36 · 1Ki 22:6 · 1Ki 22:11 · +30 more

9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins.Cross-references: Judg 19:16 · Isa 24:5 · Isa 31:6 · Hos 8:13 · Hos 10:9

10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.Cross-references: Ex 19:4 · Num 13:23 · Num 15:39 · Num 25:1 · Deut 4:3 · Deut 32:10 · +17 more

11As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.Cross-references: Gen 41:52 · Gen 48:16 · Gen 49:22 · Deut 28:18 · Deut 28:57 · Deut 33:17 · +9 more

12Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!Cross-references: Num 26:65 · Deut 28:32 · Deut 28:41 · Deut 31:17 · Deut 32:25 · Judg 4:16 · +12 more

13I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.Cross-references: 2Ki 15:16 · Jer 9:21 · Ezek 26:1 · Ezek 27:3 · Hos 9:16 · Hos 10:14 · +3 more

14Give them—Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.Cross-references: Job 21:10 · Hos 9:11 · Hos 9:13 · Hos 9:16 · Matt 24:19 · Mark 13:17 · +3 more

15“All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds, I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels.Cross-references: Lev 26:30 · Josh 4:19 · Josh 5:2 · Josh 10:43 · 1Sam 7:16 · 1Ki 9:7 · +29 more

16Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.”Cross-references: Job 18:16 · Isa 5:24 · Isa 40:24 · Ezek 24:21 · Hos 5:11 · Hos 8:7 · +2 more

17My God will cast them away, because they didn’t listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.Cross-references: Deut 28:64 · Deut 32:26 · 1Ki 14:15 · 2Ki 17:14 · 2Chr 18:13 · 2Chr 36:16 · +22 more