Prone to Wander

from the series The Gospel According to Hosea

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  • Community:
    Ambassadors
    By:
    Blake Schwarz
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    Scripture:
    Hosea 9

  • Hosea 9

    The Lord Will Punish Israel

    9:1   Rejoice not, O Israel!
        Exult not like the peoples;
      for you have played the whore, forsaking your God.
        You have loved a prostitute’s wages
        on all threshing floors.
    2   Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them,
        and the new wine shall fail them.
    3   They shall not remain in the land of the LORD,
        but Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
        and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.
    4   They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the LORD,
        and their sacrifices shall not please him.
      It shall be like mourners’ bread to them;
        all who eat of it shall be defiled;
      for their bread shall be for their hunger only;
        it shall not come to the house of the LORD.
    5   What will you do on the day of the appointed festival,
        and on the day of the feast of the LORD?
    6   For behold, they are going away from destruction;
        but Egypt shall gather them;
        Memphis shall bury them.
      Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver;
        thorns shall be in their tents.
    7   The days of punishment have come;
        the days of recompense have come;
        Israel shall know it.
      The prophet is a fool;
        the man of the spirit is mad,
      because of your great iniquity
        and great hatred.
    8   The prophet is the watchman of Ephraim with my God;
      yet a fowler’s snare is on all his ways,
        and hatred in the house of his God.
    9   They have deeply corrupted themselves
        as in the days of Gibeah:
      he will remember their iniquity;
        he will punish their sins.
    10   Like grapes in the wilderness,
        I found Israel.
      Like the first fruit on the fig tree
        in its first season,
        I saw your fathers.
      But they came to Baal-peor
        and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame,
        and became detestable like the thing they loved.
    11   Ephraim’s glory shall fly away like a bird—
        no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
    12   Even if they bring up children,
        I will bereave them till none is left.
      Woe to them
        when I depart from them!
    13   Ephraim, as I have seen, was like a young palm planted in a meadow;
        but Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.
    14   Give them, O LORD—
        what will you give?
      Give them a miscarrying womb
        and dry breasts.
    15   Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal;
        there I began to hate 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.
    16   Ephraim is stricken;
        their root is dried up;
        they shall bear no fruit.
      Even though they give birth,
        I will put their beloved children to death.
    17   My God will reject them
        because they have not listened to him;
        they shall be wanderers among the nations.