Hosea 9
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The trouble to come upon Israel
Verse 1
WEB Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
KJV Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
TSK Rejoice: ho 10:5, isa 17:11, isa 22:12, la 4:21, eze 21:10, am 6:6,7,13, am 8:10, jas 4:16, jas 5:1; as: eze 16:47,48, eze 20:32, am 3:2; gone: ho 4:12, ho 5:4,7; thou hast loved: ho 2:12, jer 44:17
Verse 2
WEB The threshing floor and the winepress won’t feed them, and the new wine will fail her.
KJV The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
TSK floor: ho 2:9,12, isa 24:7-12, joe 1:3-7,9-13, am 4:6-9,5-11, mic 6:13-16, hag 1:9, hag 2:16
Verse 3
WEB They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
KJV They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
TSK shall not: le 18:28, le 20:22, de 4:26, de 28:63, jos 23:15, 1ki 9:7, mic 2:10; the Lord's: le 25:23, jer 2:7, jer 16:18; but: ho 9:6, ho 8:13, ho 11:5, de 28:68, isa 11:15,16; and: eze 4:13, da 1:8, ac 10:14; in Assyria: ho 11:11, 2ki 17:6
Verse 4
WEB They won’t pour out wine offerings to Yahweh, neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted; for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into the house of Yahweh.
KJV They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.
TSK shall not: ho 3:4, joe 1:13, joe 2:14; neither: ho 8:13, isa 1:11-15, isa 57:6, isa 66:3, jer 6:20, am 4:4,5, am 5:22, mal 1:9,10; as: nu 19:11, de 26:14, ne 8:9-12, eze 24:17,22, mal 2:13; their bread: ex 40:23, le 17:11, le 21:6,8,17,21, nu 4:7, nu 28:2, am 8:11,12, joh 6:51
Verse 6
WEB For, behold, they have gone away from destruction. Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.
KJV For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.
TSK they: de 28:63,64, 1sa 13:6, 2ki 13:7; destruction: ho 7:13; Egypt: ho 9:3, ho 7:16, ho 8:13, ho 11:11, isa 11:11, isa 27:12, zec 10:10,11; the pleasant places for their silver, nettles: ho 10:8, ps 107:34, pr 24:31, isa 5:6, isa 7:23, isa 32:13, isa 34:13
The approach of the day of trouble
Verse 7
WEB The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.
KJV The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
TSK days of visitation: isa 10:3, jer 10:15, jer 11:23, jer 46:21, eze 7:2-7, eze 12:22-28, am 8:2, mic 7:4, zep 1:14-18, lu 21:22, re 16:19; Israel: isa 26:11, eze 25:17, eze 38:23; the prophet: ho 9:8, jer 6:14, jer 8:11, jer 23:16,17, la 2:14, eze 13:3,10, mic 2:11, zep 3:4, zec 11:15-17; mad: 2ki 9:11, jer 29:26, mr 3:21, ac 26:24,25, 2co 5:13; the multitude: eze 14:9,10, 2th 2:10-12
Verse 8
WEB A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.
KJV The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.
TSK watchman: so 3:3, isa 62:6, jer 6:17, jer 31:6, eze 3:17, eze 33:7, mic 7:4, heb 13:17; with: 1ki 17:1, 1ki 18:1,36-39, 1ki 22:28, 2ki 2:14,21, 2ki 3:15-20, 2ki 4:1-7,33-37,41, 2ki 4:43, 2ki 5:14,27, 2ki 6:17,18, 2ki 7:2,19, 2ki 13:21; but: ho 5:1, 1ki 18:19, 1ki 22:6,11,22, jer 6:14, jer 14:13, la 2:14, la 4:13; in the: joh 15:24, ro 3:7
Verse 9
WEB They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins.
KJV They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
TSK deeply: isa 24:5, isa 31:6; Gibeah: ho 10:9, jud 19:22-30, jud 20:1-21; therefore: ho 8:13
Verse 10
WEB I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.
KJV I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
TSK found: ho 11:1, ex 19:4-6, de 32:10, jer 2:2,3, jer 31:2; grapes: ho 2:15, nu 13:23,24, isa 28:4, mic 7:1; but: nu 25:3-18, de 4:3, ps 106:28; separated: ho 4:14, jud 6:32, 1ki 16:31, jer 11:13, ro 6:21; and their: nu 15:39, de 32:17, ps 81:12, jer 5:31, eze 20:8, am 4:5
Punishments on Israel
Verse 11
WEB As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, none with child, and no conception.
KJV As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
TSK their: ge 41:52, ge 48:16-20, ge 49:22, de 33:17, job 18:5,18,19; from the birth: ps 58:8, ec 6:3, am 1:13; from the womb: ho 9:14, de 28:18,57, lu 23:29
Verse 12
WEB Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!
KJV Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!
TSK yet: ho 9:13,16, de 28:32,41,42, de 32:25, job 27:14, jer 15:7, jer 16:3,4, la 2:20; not: nu 26:65, jud 4:16; woe: ho 9:5,6, ho 7:13, de 31:17, 1sa 16:14, 1sa 28:15,16, 2ki 17:18,23
Verse 13
WEB I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.
KJV Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
TSK as: eze 26:1-28; shall: ho 9:16, ho 10:14, ho 13:8,16, 2ki 15:16, jer 9:21, am 7:17
Verse 15
WEB “All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels.
KJV All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.
TSK is in: ho 4:15, ho 12:11, jos 4:19-24, jos 5:2-9, jos 10:43, 1sa 7:16, am 4:4, am 5:5, mic 6:5; I hated: le 26:30, eze 23:18, zec 11:8; I will drive: ho 9:3,17, ho 1:6,9, ho 3:4, 1ki 9:7-9, 2ki 17:17-20, ps 78:60, jer 3:8, jer 11:15, jer 33:24-26, am 5:27; all: ho 5:1,2, isa 1:23, jer 5:5, eze 22:27, mic 3:11, zep 3:3, ac 4:5-7,27, ac 5:21
Verse 16
WEB Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they bring forth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.”
KJV Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.
TSK their root: ho 9:11-13, job 18:16, isa 5:24, isa 40:24, mal 4:1; the beloved fruit: eze 24:21
Verse 17
WEB My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.
KJV My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
TSK My God: 2ch 18:13, ne 5:19, ps 31:14, isa 7:13, mic 7:7, joh 20:17,28, php 4:19; because: ho 7:13, 1ki 14:15,16, 2ki 17:14-20, 2ch 36:16, ps 81:11-13, pr 29:1, isa 48:18, jer 25:3,4, jer 26:4-6, jer 35:15-17, zec 1:4, zec 7:11-14, ac 3:23; and: de 28:64,65, de 32:26, am 8:2, am 9:9, joh 7:35, jas 1:1