Oséias 9

1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as

2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.

3 They shall not dwell in the

4 They shall not offer wine

5 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the

6 For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant

7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know

8 The watchman of Ephraim

9 They have deeply corrupted

10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time:

12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them,

13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus,

14 Give them, O

15 All their wickedness

16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay

17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.