< Hosea 9 >
1 “Do not rejoice, O Israel, do not be joyful like the peoples, For you have gone whoring from your God, You have loved a wage near all floors of grain.
not to rejoice Israel to(wards) rejoicing like/as people for to fornicate from upon God your to love: lover wages upon all threshing floor grain
2 Floor and winepress do not feed them, And new wine fails in her,
threshing floor and wine not to pasture them and new wine to deceive in/on/with her
3 They do not abide in the land of YHWH, And Ephraim has turned back [to] Egypt, And they eat an unclean thing in Asshur.
not to dwell in/on/with land: country/planet LORD and to return: return Ephraim Egypt and in/on/with Assyria unclean to eat
4 They do not pour out wine to YHWH, 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 does not come into the house of YHWH.
not to pour to/for LORD wine and not to please to/for him sacrifice their like/as food: bread evil: trouble to/for them all to eat him to defile for food: bread their to/for soul: appetite their not to come (in): come house: temple LORD
5 What do you do at the day appointed? And at the day of YHWH’s festival?
what? to make: do to/for day meeting: festival and to/for day feast LORD
6 For behold, they have gone because of destruction, Egypt gathers them, Moph buries them, The desirable things of their silver, Nettles possess them—a thorn [is] in their tents.
for behold to go: went from violence Egypt to gather them Memphis to bury them desire to/for silver: money their nettle to possess: possess them thistle in/on/with tent their
7 The days of inspection have come in, The days of repayment have come in, Israel knows! The prophet [is] a fool, Mad [is] the man of the spirit, Because of the abundance of your iniquity, And great [is] the hatred.
to come (in): come day [the] punishment to come (in): come day [the] recompense to know Israel fool(ish) [the] prophet be mad man [the] spirit upon abundance iniquity: crime your and many hatred
8 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.
to watch Ephraim with God my prophet snare fowler upon all way: journey his hatred in/on/with house: temple God his
9 They have gone deep—have done corruptly, As [in] the days of Gibeah, He remembers their iniquity, He inspects their sins.
be deep to ruin like/as day [the] Gibeah to remember iniquity: crime their to reckon: punish sin their
10 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 have gone in [to] Ba‘al-Peor, And are separated to a shameful thing, And have become abominable like their love.
like/as grape in/on/with wilderness to find Israel like/as early fig in/on/with fig in/on/with first: beginning her to see: see father your they(masc.) to come (in): come Baal of Peor Baal of Peor and to dedicate to/for shame and to be abomination like/as to love: lover they
11 Ephraim [is] as a bird, their glory flies away, without birth, and without womb, and without conception.
Ephraim like/as bird to fly glory their from to beget and from belly: womb and from conception
12 For though they nourish their sons, I have made them childless—without man, Surely also, woe to them when I turn aside from them.
that if: except if: except to magnify [obj] son: child their and be bereaved them from man for also woe! to/for them in/on/with to turn aside: depart I from them
13 Ephraim! When I have looked to the rock, Is planted in comeliness, And Ephraim [is] to bring out his sons to a slayer.
Ephraim like/as as which to see: see to/for Tyre to transplant in/on/with pasture and Ephraim to/for to come out: send to(wards) to kill son: child his
14 Give to them, YHWH—what do You give? Give to them miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.
to give: give to/for them LORD what? to give: give to give: give to/for them womb be bereaved and breast to shrivel
15 All their evil [is] in Gilgal, Surely there I have hated them, Because of the evil of their doings, Out of My house I drive them, I no longer love them, All their heads [are] apostates.
all distress: evil their in/on/with Gilgal for there to hate them upon evil deed their from house: home my to drive out: divorce them not to add: again love their all ruler their to rebel
16 Ephraim has been struck, Their root has dried up, they do not yield fruit, Indeed, though they bring forth, I have put to death the desired of their womb.
to smite Ephraim root their to wither fruit (not *Q(K)*) to make [emph?] also for to beget [emph?] and to die desire belly: womb their
17 My God rejects them, Because they have not listened to Him, And they are wanderers among nations!”
to reject them God my for not to hear: hear to/for him and to be to wander in/on/with nation