Hoshea 9

¹Rejoice not, O Yisroel,

for joy, as other people;

for thou hast gone a-whoring from thy G-d,

thou hast loved for hire upon every threshing floor.

²The floor and the wine-press shall not feed them,

and the tirosh shall fail in her.

³They shall not dwell in Hashem ʼs land;

but Ephrayim shall return to Mitzrayim,

and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

⁴They shall not offer yayin offerings to Hashem ,

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 shall be for their own nefesh

and shall not come into the Beis Hashem .

⁵What will ye do in the Yom Mo'ed,

and in the Yom Chag Hashem ?

⁶For, lo, they are gone because of destruction;

Mitzrayim shall gather them up,

Memphis shall bury them;

nettles shall possess their valuables of kesef;

thorns shall be in their tents.

⁷The days of pekudah (visitation for divine punishment) are come,

the yamim of recompence are come;

Yisroel shall know it.

The navi is a fool,

the ish haruach (spiritual man) is meshuga,

for the multitude of thine iniquity

and great hatred.

⁸The watchman of Ephrayim was with my G-d;

but the navi is a snare of a fowler in all his ways,

and hatred in the bais of his G-d.

⁹They have deeply corrupted themselves,

as in the yamim of Giv'ah;

therefore He will remember their iniquity,

He will visit their sins.

¹⁰I found Yisroel like grapes in the midbar;

I saw your avot as the bikkurah

in the fig tree at her first season;

but they went to Ba'al-Pe'or,

and separated themselves unto that shame;

and their abominations were according as they loved.

¹¹As for Ephrayim, their kavod shall fly away like a bird,

from the birth, and from the beten (womb) , and from the conception.

¹²Though they bring up their banim,

yet will I bereave them,

that there shall not be a man left:

yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

¹³Ephrayim, as I saw Tzor,

is planted in a pleasant place;

but Ephrayim shall bring forth

his banim to the murderer.

¹⁴Give them, O Hashem . What wilt Thou give?

Give them a miscarrying rechem (womb) and dry breasts.

¹⁵All their wickedness is in Gilgal;

for there I hated them;

for the wickedness of their doings

I will drive them out of Mine bais,

I will love them no more;

all their sarim (princes) are sorerim (rebels) .

¹⁶Ephrayim is struck,

their shoresh (root) is dried up,

they shall bear no fruit;

yea, though they bring forth,

yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their beten (womb) .

¹⁷My G-d will cast them away,

because they did not pay heed unto Him;

and they shall be nodedim (wanderers) among the Goyim.