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Friday, April 28, 2017

The Sins Israel Committed And Punishment For Them



Hosea 9:1-17 NIV






Punishment for Israel








1Do not rejoice, Israel;
do not be jubilant like the other nations.
For you have been unfaithful to your GOD;
you love the wages of a prostitute
at every threshing floor.
2Threshing floors and winepresses will not feed the people;
the new wine will fail them.

3They will not remain in The LORD'S Land;
Ephraim will return to Egypt
and eat unclean food in Assyria.
4They will not pour out wine offerings to The LORD,
nor will their sacrifices please HIM.
Such sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;
all who eat them will be unclean.
This food will be for themselves;
it will not come into The Temple of The LORD.

5What will you do on the day of your appointed festivals,
on the feast days of The LORD?
6Even if they escape from destruction,
Egypt will gather them,
and Memphis will bury them.
Their treasures of silver will be taken over by briers,
and thorns will overrun their tents.

7The days of punishment are coming,
the days of reckoning are at hand.
Let Israel know this.
Because your sins are so many
and your hostility so great,
the prophet is considered a fool,
the inspired person a maniac.







8The prophet, along with my GOD,
is the watchman over Ephraim,a
yet snares await him on all his paths,
and hostility in The House of his GOD.
9They have sunk deep into corruption,
as in the days of Gibeah.
GOD Will Remember their wickedness
and Punish them for their sins.

10“When I found Israel,
it was like finding grapes in the desert;
when I saw your ancestors,
it was like seeing the early fruit on the fig tree.
But when they came to Baal Peor,
they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol
and became as vile as the thing they loved.

11Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird—
no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.
12Even if they rear children,
I Will Bereave them of every one.
Woe to them
when I Turn Away from them!

13I Have Seen Ephraim, like Tyre,
Planted in a pleasant place.
But Ephraim will bring out
their children to the slayer.”
14Give them, LORD
What Will YOU Give them?
Give them wombs that miscarry
and breasts that are dry.
15“Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal,
I Hated them there.
Because of their sinful deeds,
I Will drive them Out of MY House.
I Will No Longer Love them;
all their leaders are rebellious.

16Ephraim is blighted,
their root is withered,
they yield no fruit.
Even if they bear children,
I Will Slay their cherished offspring.”

17My GOD Will Reject them
because they have not obeyed HIM;
they will be wanderers among the nations.












This chapter is an address to Israel or the ten tribes, and contains either a new sermon, or is a very considerable part of the former upon the same subject, the sins and punishment of that people.


It begins with an instruction to them, not to rejoice in their prosperity, as others did; since it would soon be at an end, because of their idolatry, which was everywhere committed, and for which they expected a reward of temporal good things, Hosea 9:1; but, on the contrary, they are threatened with famine, with want both of corn and wine, Hosea 9:2; and with an ejection out of their land into foreign countries; where they should be obliged to eat things unclean by their law, Hosea 9:3; and where their sacrifices and solemnities should be no more attended to, Hosea 9:4; where their carcasses should fall and be buried, while their own country and houses lay waste and desolate, Hosea 9:6.


Whatsoever their foolish and mad prophets said to the contrary, who pretended to be with GOD, and know HIS Will, and were a snare to them that gave heed to them, and brought hatred on them, the time of their punishment would certainly come, Hosea 9:7; and their iniquities would be remembered and visited; seeing their corruptions were deep, like those that appeared in Gibeah, in the days of old, Hosea 9:9; they act the same ungrateful part their fathers had done, of whom they were a degenerate offspring, Hosea 9:10; wherefore for these, and other offenses mentioned, they are threatened with being bereaved of their children, and drove out of their land, to wander among the nations, Hosea 9:11.









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