{"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/drb/hosea/9","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T20:54:44.276Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","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: rejoice not as the nations do: for thou hast committed fornication against thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the wine shall deceive them. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"They shall not dwell in the Lord's land: Ephraim is returned to Egypt, and hath eaten unclean things among the Assyrians. "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"They shall not offer wine to the Lord, neither shall they please him: their sacrifices shall be like the bread of mourners: all that shall eat it shall be defiled: for their bread is life for their soul, it shall not enter into the house of the Lord. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"What will you do in the solemn day, in the day of the feast of the Lord? "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For behold they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them together, Memphis shall bury them: nettles shall inherit their beloved silver, the bur shall be in their tabernacles. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"The days of visitation are come, the days of repaying are come: know ye, O Israel, that the prophet was foolish, the spiritual man was mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the multitude of thy madness. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: the prophet is become a snare of ruin upon all his ways, madness is in the house of his God. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"They have sinned deeply, as in the days of Gabaa: he will remember their iniquity, and will visit their sin. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"I found Israel like grapes in the desert, I saw their fathers like the firstfruits of the fig tree in the top thereof: but they went in to Beelphegor, and alienated themselves to that confusion, and became abominable, as those things were, which they loved. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"As for Ephraim, their glory hath flown away like a bird from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"And though they should bring up their children, I will make them without children among men: yea, and woe to them, when I shall depart from them. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Ephraim, as I saw, was a Tyre founded in beauty: and Ephraim shall bring out his children to the murderer. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Give them, O Lord. What wilt thou give them? Give them a womb without children, and dry breasts. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"All their wickedness is in Galgal, for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their devices I will cast them forth out of my house: I will love them no more, all their princes are revolters. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Ephraim is struck, their root is dried up, they shall yield no fruit. And if they should have issue, I will slay the best beloved fruit of their womb. "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"My God will cast them away, because they hearkened not to him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations. "}],"citation":{"inline":"Hosea 9 (DRB)","markdown":"[Hosea 9](https://primebible.com/drb/hosea/9)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/hosea/9 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}