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, Israel, with joy like the other peoples. For you have been unfaithful, forsaking your God. You love to pay the wages a prostitute requires on all the threshing floors.

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

But the threshing floor and the winepress will not 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 continue to live in Yahweh's land; instead, Ephraim will return to Egypt, and one day they will 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 pour out no wine offerings to Yahweh, neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like mourners' food: all who eat it will be defiled. For their food will be for themselves only; it will not come into the house of Yahweh.

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

What will you do on the day of an appointed festival, on the day of a festival for Yahweh?

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, look, if they escape from destruction, Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them. As for their treasures of silver— sharp briers will possess them, and thorns will fill 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 for punishment are coming; the days for retribution are coming. Let all Israel know these things. The prophet is a fool, and the inspired man is insane, because of your great iniquity and great 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 the watchman for my God over Ephraim. But a bird snare is on all of his paths, and hostility toward him 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. God will call to mind their iniquity, and 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

Yahweh says, “When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness. Like the very first fruit of the season on the fig tree, I found your fathers. But they went to Baal Peor, and they devoted themselves to that shameful idol. They became as detestable as the idol 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 will fly away like a bird. There will be 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

Though they have brought up children, I will take them away so that none of them 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

I have seen Ephraim, just like Tyre, planted in a meadow, but Ephraim will bring out his children to someone who will slaughter them.”

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, Yahweh—what will you give them? Give them a miscarrying womb and breasts that give no milk.

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

“Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal, that is where I began to hate them. Because of their sinful deeds, I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more; all their officials 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 diseased, and their root is dried up; they bear no fruit. Even if they have children, I will put their beloved children to death.”

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. They will become wanderers among the nations.