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## Hosea 9:1-17 in Context (Verses 1–17 KJV)
 
 [1 ](/kjv/hosea/9/1) 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.*
 
 [2 ](/kjv/hosea/9/2) The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.*
 
 [3 ](/kjv/hosea/9/3) They shall not dwell in the LORD’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean *things* in Assyria.
 
 [4 ](/kjv/hosea/9/4) 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.
 
 [5 ](/kjv/hosea/9/5) What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?
 
 [6 ](/kjv/hosea/9/6) 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.**
 
 [7 ](/kjv/hosea/9/7) 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.*
 
 [8 ](/kjv/hosea/9/8) 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.*
 
 [9 ](/kjv/hosea/9/9) They have deeply corrupted *themselves*, as in the days of Gibeah: *therefore* he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
 
 [10 ](/kjv/hosea/9/10) 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 Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto *that* shame; and *their* abominations were according as they loved.
 
 [11 ](/kjv/hosea/9/11) *As for* Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
 
 [12 ](/kjv/hosea/9/12) 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!
 
 [13 ](/kjv/hosea/9/13) Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, *is* planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
 
 [14 ](/kjv/hosea/9/14) Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.*
 
 [15 ](/kjv/hosea/9/15) 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.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/hosea/9/16) 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.*
 
 [17 ](/kjv/hosea/9/17) My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
 
[Hosea 8](/kjv/hosea/8) [Hosea 10](/kjv/hosea/10)

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