{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Hosea",
 "chapter": 9,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?"
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence 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."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "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!"
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations."
  }
 ],
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