{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/hosea/9","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T18:08:09.524Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Hosea","bookSlug":"hosea","chapter":9,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":8,"nextChapter":10,"totalChapters":14,"totalVerses":17},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for you have gone a whoring from your God, you have loved a reward on every corn floor."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"The floor and the wine press shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"They shall not dwell in the LORD's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing to him: their sacrifices shall be to 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."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"What will you do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For, see, 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."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of your iniquity, and the great hatred."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves to that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yes, woe also to them when I depart from them!"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Give them, O LORD: what will you give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house, I will love them no more: all their princes are rebels."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yes, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations."}],"citation":{"inline":"Hosea 9 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Hosea 9](https://primebible.com/akjv/hosea/9)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/hosea/9 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}