{"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/ylt/hosea/9","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T03:55:12.351Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","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, be not joyful like the peoples, For thou hast gone a-whoring from thy God, Thou hast loved a gift near all floors of corn."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Floor and wine-press do not delight them, And new wine doth fail in her,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"They do not abide in the land of Jehovah, And turned back hath Ephraim to Egypt, And in Asshur an unclean thing they eat."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"They pour not out wine to Jehovah, Nor are they sweet to Him, Their sacrifices are as bread of mourners to them, All eating it are unclean: For their bread is for themselves, It doth not come into the house of Jehovah."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"What do ye at the day appointed? And at the day of Jehovah's festival?"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For, lo, they have gone because of destruction, Egypt gathereth them, Moph burieth them, The desirable things of their silver, Nettles possess them — a thorn is in their tents."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Come in have the days of inspection, Come in have the days of recompence, Israel doth know! a fool is the prophet, Mad is the man of the Spirit, Because of the abundance of thine iniquity, And great is the hatred."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Ephraim is looking away from My God, The prophet! a snare of a fowler is over all his ways, Hatred is in the house of his God."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"They have gone deep — have done corruptly, As in the days of Gibeah, He doth remember their iniquity, He doth inspect their sins."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"As grapes in a wilderness I found Israel, As the first-fruit in a fig-tree, at its beginning, I have seen your fathers, They — they have gone in to Baal-Peor, And are separated to a shameful thing, And are become abominable like their love."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Ephraim is as a fowl, Fly away doth their honour, without birth, And without womb, and without conception."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For though they nourish their sons, I have made them childless — without man, Surely also, woe to them, when I turn aside from them."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Ephraim! when I have looked to the rock, Is planted in comeliness, And Ephraim is to bring out unto a slayer his sons."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Give to them, Jehovah — what dost Thou give? Give to them miscarrying womb, and dry breasts."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"All their evil is in Gilgal, Surely there I have hated them, Because of the evil of their doings, Out of My house I do drive them, I add not to love them, all their heads are apostates."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Ephraim hath been smitten, Their root hath dried up, fruit they yield not, Yea, though they bring forth, I have put to death the desired of their womb."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Reject them doth my God, Because they have not hearkened to Him, And they are wanderers among nations!"}],"citation":{"inline":"Hosea 9 (YLT)","markdown":"[Hosea 9](https://primebible.com/ylt/hosea/9)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/hosea/9 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}