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The Prophecy
of Osee 9
Rejoice not, O Israel: rejoice not as the nations do:
for thou hast committed fornication against thy God,
thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and
the wine shall deceive them.
They shall not dwell in the Lord's land: Ephraim is
returned to Egypt, and hath eaten unclean things among
the Assyrians.
They shall not offer wine to the Lord, neither shall
they please him: their sacrifices shall be like the
bread of mourners: all that shall eat it shall be defiled:
for their bread is life for their soul, it shall not
enter into the house of the Lord.
What will you do in the solemn day, in the day of the
feast of the Lord?
For behold they are gone because of destruction: Egypt
shall gather them together, Memphis shall bury them:
nettles shall inherit their beloved silver, the bur
shall be in their tabernacles.
The days of visitation are come, the days of repaying
are come: know ye, O Israel, that the prophet was foolish,
the spiritual man was mad, for the multitude of thy
iniquity, and the multitude of thy madness.
The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: the prophet
is become a snare of ruin upon all his ways, madness
is in the house of his God.
They have sinned deeply, as in the days of Gabaa: he
will remember their iniquity, and will visit their sin.
I found Israel like grapes in the desert, I saw their
fathers like the firstfruits of the fig tree in the
top thereof: but they went in to Beelphegor, and alienated
themselves to that confusion, and became abominable,
as those things were, which they loved.
As for Ephraim, their glory hath flown away like a bird
from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
And though they should bring up their children, I will
make them without children among men: yea, and woe to
them, when I shall depart from them.
Ephraim, as I saw, was a Tyre founded in beauty: and
Ephraim shall bring out his children to the murderer.
Give them, O Lord. What wilt thou give them? Give them
a womb without children, and dry breasts.
All their wickedness is in Galgal, for there I hated
them: for the wickedness of their devices I will cast
them forth out of my house: I will love them no more,
all their princes are revolters.
Ephraim is struck, their root is dried up, they shall
yield no fruit. And if they should have issue, I will
slay the best beloved fruit of their womb.
My God will cast them away, because they hearkened not
to him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
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