< Hosea 9 >
1 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
Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.
2 threshing floor and wine not to pasture them and new wine to deceive in/on/with her
The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.
3 not to dwell in/on/with land: country/planet LORD and to return: return Ephraim Egypt and in/on/with Assyria unclean to eat
They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.
4 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
They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him, but will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat will be defiled. For their bread will be for themselves; it will not enter the house of the LORD.
5 what? to make: do to/for day meeting: festival and to/for day feast LORD
What will you do on the appointed day, on the day of the LORD’s feast?
6 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
For even if they flee destruction, Egypt will gather them and Memphis will bury them. Their precious silver will be taken over by thistles, and thorns will overrun their tents.
7 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
The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have arrived— let Israel know it. The prophet is called a fool, and the inspired man insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and hostility.
8 to watch Ephraim with God my prophet snare fowler upon all way: journey his hatred in/on/with house: temple God his
The prophet is Ephraim’s watchman, along with my God, yet the snare of the fowler lies on all his paths. Hostility is in the house of his God!
9 be deep to ruin like/as day [the] Gibeah to remember iniquity: crime their to reckon: punish sin their
They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.
10 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
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.
11 Ephraim like/as bird to fly glory their from to beget and from belly: womb and from conception
Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird, with no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.
12 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
Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe be to them when I turn away from them!
13 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
I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a meadow. But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.
14 to give: give to/for them LORD what? to give: give to give: give to/for them womb be bereaved and breast to shrivel
Give them, O LORD— what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!
15 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
All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.
16 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
Ephraim is struck down; their root is withered; they cannot bear fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay the darlings of their wombs.
17 to reject them God my for not to hear: hear to/for him and to be to wander in/on/with nation
My God will reject them because they have not obeyed Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.