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9:1  Of the hunger and captivity of Israel. 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 corn floor.
9:2  The floor, and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
9:3  They will not dwell in the Lord’s land, but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean things in Assyria.
9:4  They shall not offer wine to the Lord, neither shall their sacrifices be pleasant unto him: but they shall be unto them as the bread of mourners: all that eat thereof, shall be polluted: for their bread for their souls shall not come into the house of the Lord.
9:5  What will ye do then in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the Lord?
9:6  For lo, they are gone from destruction: but Egypt shall gather them up, and Memphis shall bury them: the nettle shall possess the pleasant places of their silver, and the thorn shall be in their tabernacles.
9:7  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: therefore the hatred is great.
9:8  The watchman of Ephraim should be with my God: but the Prophet is the snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.
9:9  They are deeply set: they are corrupt as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
9:10  I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness: I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baal Peor, and separated themselves unto that shame, and their abominations were according to their lovers.
9:11  Ephraim their glory shall flee away like a bird: from the birth and from the womb, and from the conception.
9:12  Though they bring up their children, yet I will deprive them from being men: yea, woe to them, when I depart from them.
9:13  Ephraim, as I saw, is as a tree in Tyre planted in a cottage: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
9:14  O Lord, give them: what wilt thou give them? give them a barren womb and dry breasts.
9:15  All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there do I hate them: for the wickedness of their inventions, I will cast them out of mine House: I will love them no more: all their princes are rebels.
9:16  Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up: they can bring no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the dearest of their body.
9:17  My God will cast them away, because they did not obey him: and they shall wander among the nations.