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 too loudly, Israel, like the nations, for you have commited adultery, being untrue to your God. You have loved a prostitute’s wages on every threshing floor.

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

Threshing floor and wine vat won’t feed them, 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 stay in the Lord’s land, but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and in Assyria they will eat what is unclean.

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 libations of wine to the Lord, nor please him with their sacrifices. Their bread will be like the bread of mourners: all who eat it will defile themselves. For their bread will be only for their hunger, it will not come into the Lord’s temple.

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

What will you do on the day of the festival? Or 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

Even if they flee from destruction, Egypt will gather them, Memphis will bury them. Nettles will take possession of their treasure of silver, thorns will push into 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 are come, the days of recompense are at hand, as soon the Israelites will know! “The prophet is a fool, the inspired man is raving mad!” It is because of the greatness of your iniquity and the greatness of your hatred.

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

Ephraim acts the spy with my God, a prophet finds the snares of a fowler are in all his ways. In the house of his God they lay hostile plots,

9 be deep to ruin like/as day [the] Gibeah to remember iniquity: crime their to reckon: punish sin their

they commit crimes as in the days of Gibeah, God will remember their iniquity. He will punish their sin.

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 finding grapes in the wilderness. I saw your ancestors like they were the first fruit on a fig tree, but as soon as they came to Baal-peor, they consecrated themselves to shamefulness, and became as abominable as the object of their love.

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

Ephraim – like a bird his glory flies away. There will be no more birth, no more motherhood, no more 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 though they bring up their children, I will bereave them until not one is left. Woe 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

Ephraim – planted like Tyre in a meadow, But Ephraim too must lead forth their children to 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, Lord – what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and shrivelled 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 evil began in Gilgal, there I learned to hate them. Because of the evil of their deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will no longer love them, for 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

Ephraim is blighted, their root withered. If they do bear children, I will slay the darlings of their womb,

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 listened to him, and they will become wanderers among the nations.