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

Rejoice not, O Israel, for gladness, as other people; for thou art gone astray, unfaithful to thy God: thou hast loved the wages of sin upon every corn-filled threshing-floor.

2 threshing floor and wine not to pasture them and new wine to deceive in/on/with her

The threshing-floor and the wine-press shall not feed them, and the new wine shall deceive 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 shall not dwell in the land of the Lord; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and in Assyria will they eat unclean things.

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 shall not pour out wine to the Lord, and [their offerings] shall not be pleasing unto him; their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for this their food can only be for themselves, it shall not come into the house of the Lord.

5 what? to make: do to/for day meeting: festival and to/for day feast LORD

What will ye do on the day of the appointed festival, and on the day of the feast of the Lord?

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, lo, they are gone forth because of the desolation: Egypt will gather them up, Moph will bury them: the pleasant chambers for their silver, —these shall nettles take possession of; thorns shall [grow] in 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

Come are the days of the visitation, come are the days of thy recompense; this shall Israel experience: a fool was the prophet, mad the inspired man, because of the greatness of thy iniquity, and the great hatefulness.

8 to watch Ephraim with God my prophet snare fowler upon all way: journey his hatred in/on/with house: temple God his

The watchman of Ephraim with my God, the prophet, was a snare of the fowler on all his ways, a hateful thing 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 are deeply corrupt, as in the days of Gib'ah: he will remember their iniquity, he will visit 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

Like grapes in the wilderness had I found Israel; as the first ripe fruit on the fig-tree in the first of the season had I seen your fathers; but they too went to Ba'al-pe'or: and devoted themselves unto that shameful idol, and became abominations as those they loved.

11 Ephraim like/as bird to fly glory their from to beget and from belly: womb and from conception

As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there is no more birth, and 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

But though they were to bring up their children, yet would I bereave them, that there should be no man: yea, woe also to themselves, when I depart 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

Ephraim, as I have seen him like Tyre, planted in a pleasant meadow, —yet this Ephraim shall lead forth to the murderer his children.

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 thou wilt give! give them a miscarrying womb and dried-up breasts.

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 wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I [learnt to] hate them; for the wickedness of their doings will I drive them out of my house: I will love them no farther; all their princes are rebels.

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

Smitten is Ephraim, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit; yea, though they should bring forth, yet would I slay the beloved fruit of their body.

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 did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.