Douay Rheims Original ↷
Hosea 9 📜 📕 ↷
Israel's Punishment
1 BE not glad Israel, rejoice not as the peoples: because thou hast fornicated from thy God, thou hast loved reward above all the floors of wheat.📜💬📚
2 The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the wine shall lie to them.📜💬📚
3 They shall not dwell in the land of our Lord: Ephraim is returned into AEgypt, and among the Assyrians he hath eaten the thing polluted.📜💬📚
4 They shall not offer wine to our Lord, and they shall not please him: their sacrifices as the bread of mourners: all that shall eat it shall be contaminated: because their bread for their soul, shall not enter into the house of our Lord.📜💬📚
5 What will you do in the solemn day, in the day of the festivity of our Lord?📜💬📚
6 For behold they are gone forth from destruction: AEgypt shall gather them together, Memphis shall bury them: their silver to be desired the nettle shall inherit, the bur in their tabernacles.📜💬📚
7 The days of visitation are come, the days are come of retributions: know o Israel the foolish Prophet, the mad spiritual man, for the multitude of thine iniquity, the multitude also madness.📜💬📚
8 The watchman of Ephraim with my God: the Prophet is made a snare of ruin upon all his ways, madness in the house of his God.📜💬📚
9 They have sinned deeply, as in the days of Gabaa: he will remember their iniquity, and will visit their sin.📜💬📚
10 As grapes in the desert I found Israel: as the first fruits of the fig-tree in the top thereof I saw their fathers: but they have entered into Beelphegor, and are alienated into confusion, and are become abominable, as those things, which they loved.📜💬📚
11 Ephraim as a bird hath flown away, their glory from birth, and from the womb, and from conception.📜💬📚
12 But if they shall nourish up their children, I will make them without children among men: yea and woe to them, when I shall depart from them.📜💬📚
13 Ephraim, as I saw, was Tyre founded in beauty: & Ephraim shall lead out his children to the murderer.📜💬📚
14 Give them o Lord, what wilt thou give to them? Give them a womb without children, & dry breasts.📜💬📚
15 All their wicked in Galgal, because there I hated them: for the malice of their inventions I will cast them forth out of my house: I will not add to love them, all their princes revolters.📜💬📚
16 Ephraim is strucken, their root is dried up, they shall yield no fruit. But and if they shall have issue, I will kill the best beloved things of their womb.📜💬📚
17 My God will cast them away, because they hear him not: and they shall be vagabonds in the nations.📜💬📚
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