{"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/erv/hosea/9","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T00:42:14.030Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ERV","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, like the peoples; for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved hire upon every cornfloor."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"They shall not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread shall be for their appetite; it shall not come into the house of the LORD."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"What will ye do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For, lo, they are gone away from destruction, yet Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: their pleasant things of silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tents."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the man that hath the spirit is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and because the enmity is great."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Ephraim was a watchman with my God: as for the prophet, a fowler's snare is in all his ways, and enmity in the house of his God."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: 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 firstripe in the fig tree at her first season: but they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there be not a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Ephraim, like as I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring out his children to the slayer."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house: I will love them no more; all their princes are revolters."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved fruit of their womb."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations."}],"citation":{"inline":"Hosea 9 (ERV)","markdown":"[Hosea 9](https://primebible.com/erv/hosea/9)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ERV. https://primebible.com/erv/hosea/9 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}