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Book of Hosea, Chapter 9

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Chapter 9 of Hosea—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ “Do not rejoice, O Israel.1 Do not act joyful like the peoples.2 For by fornication you have gone from alongside your God.3 You have loved gifts of hire on all the threshing floors of grain.4
  2. Threshing floor and winepress do not feed them,5 and sweet wine itself proves disappointing to her.6
  3. They will not continue dwelling in the land of Jehovah,7 and Eʹphra·im must return to Egypt,8 and in As·syrʹi·a they will eat what is unclean.9
  4. They will not continue pouring out wine to Jehovah.10 And their sacrifices will not be gratifying to him;11 they are like the bread of times of mourning12 to them; all those eating it will defile themselves. For their bread is for their own soul;[a] it will not come into the house of Jehovah.13
  5. What will YOU people do in the day of meeting and in the day of the festival of Jehovah?14
  6. For, look! they will have to go because of despoiling.15 Egypt itself will collect them together;16 Memʹphis,[b]17 for its part, will bury them. As for their desirable things of silver, nettles themselves will take possession of them;18 thorny bushes will be in their tents.19
  7. ¶ “The days of being given attention must come;20 the days of the due payment must come.21 Those of Israel will know [it].22 The prophet will be foolish,23 the man of inspired expression[c] will be maddened on account of the abundance of your error,24 even animosity being abundant.”
  8. ¶ The watchman25 of Eʹphra·im was with my God.[d]26 As regards a prophet,27 there is the trap of a birdcatcher on all his ways;28 there is an animosity in the house of his God.
  9. They have gone down deep in bringing ruin,[e]29 as in the days of Gibʹe·ah.30 He will remember their error;31 he will give attention to their sins.
  10. ¶ “Like grapes in the wilderness I found Israel.32 Like the early fig on a fig tree in its beginning I saw the forefathers of YOU people.33 They themselves went in to Baʹal of Peʹor,[f]34 and they proceeded to dedicate themselves to[g] the shameful thing,35 and they came to be disgusting like [the thing of] their love.36
  11. As regards Eʹphra·im, like a flying creature their glory flies away,37 so that there is no giving birth, and no [pregnant] belly and no conception.38
  12. For although they bring up their sons, I will also bereave them of children so that there will be no man;39 because—woe also to them when I turn away from them!40
  13. Eʹphra·im, whom I have seen like Tyre planted in a pasture ground,41 even Eʹphra·im is destined to a bringing out of his sons even to a killer.”42
  14. ¶ Give to them, O Jehovah, what you should give.43 Give them a miscarrying womb44 and breasts shriveling up.
  15. ¶ “All their badness was in Gilʹgal,45 for there I had to hate them.46 On account of the evil of their dealings I shall drive them away from my own house.47 I will not continue on loving them.48 All their princes are acting stubborn.49
  16. Eʹphra·im must be struck down.50 Their very root must dry up.51 There will be no fruit that they produce.52 Also, in case they bring to birth, I will even put to death the desirable things of their belly.”53
  17. ¶ My God[h]54 will reject them, for they have not listened to him,55 and they will become fugitives among the nations.56

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Or, “for their own selves.” Heb., lenaph·shamʹ; Gr., tais psy·khaisʹ au·tonʹ; Lat., aʹni·mae i·psoʹrum. See App 4A.
  2. ^ “Memphis.” Gr. and Lat., Memʹphis; Heb., Moph; T(Aram.), leMa·phehsʹ; Syr., u·Ma·phes.
  3. ^ Or, “man of inspiration.” Lit., “man of the spirit.” Heb., ʼish ha·ruʹach; Gr., anʹthro·pos ho pneu·ma·to·phoʹros, “man bearing the spirit; man inspired”; Vgc(Lat.), viʹrum spi·ri·tu·aʹlem.
  4. ^ “My God.” Heb., ʼElo·haiʹ.
  5. ^ Lit., “They have made [it] deep, they have brought [it] to ruin,” M; possibly, by a correction, “They have made his pit deep.”
  6. ^ Or, “Baal-peor.”
  7. ^ Or, “to withdraw themselves to; to hold themselves separate for.”
  8. ^ “My God.” Heb., ʼElo·haiʹ.

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Ho 10:5; Am 6:13
  2. ^ Eze 20:32
  3. ^ Eze 23:5; Ho 4:12
  4. ^ Ho 2:12; Mc 1:7
  5. ^ Ho 2:9
  6. ^ Is 24:7; Am 5:11
  7. ^ Le 20:22; De 28:64; Jos 23:15; 1Ki 9:7
  8. ^ De 28:68; Ho 8:13
  9. ^ 2Ki 17:6; Eze 4:13
  10. ^ Nu 15:5; 28:14; Jl 1:13
  11. ^ Is 1:11; Je 6:20
  12. ^ De 26:14
  13. ^ Nu 28:2
  14. ^ Jl 1:14
  15. ^ Ho 7:13
  16. ^ Ho 7:16; 8:13
  17. ^ Je 2:16
  18. ^ Pr 24:31; Is 7:23
  19. ^ Is 5:6; 32:13; 34:13
  20. ^ Is 10:3; Je 10:15; Lu 19:44
  21. ^ Lu 21:22
  22. ^ Ps 9:16
  23. ^ Is 44:25; Je 6:14
  24. ^ Eze 14:10
  25. ^ Je 6:17; 31:6; Eze 33:7
  26. ^ 1Ki 17:1; 2Ki 2:14
  27. ^ 1Ki 18:19; Je 6:14; 14:13
  28. ^ La 2:14
  29. ^ Is 31:6
  30. ^ Jg 19:22; 20:5; Ho 10:9
  31. ^ Ho 8:13
  32. ^ Je 2:2; 31:2
  33. ^ Nu 13:23; Is 28:4; Mc 7:1
  34. ^ Nu 25:3; De 4:3; Ps 106:28
  35. ^ 1Ki 16:31; Je 11:13
  36. ^ Is 66:3; Eze 7:20; Am 4:5
  37. ^ Jm 1:11
  38. ^ De 28:18
  39. ^ De 28:32; 32:25; Je 15:7
  40. ^ De 31:17; 2Ki 17:18
  41. ^ Eze 28:12
  42. ^ 2Ki 15:16; Je 9:21
  43. ^ Lu 23:29
  44. ^ Ps 58:8
  45. ^ Ho 4:15; 12:11; Am 5:5
  46. ^ Eze 23:18
  47. ^ Le 26:33; 2Ki 17:18; Ps 78:60; Am 5:27
  48. ^ De 29:20
  49. ^ Is 1:23; Eze 22:27; Mc 3:11
  50. ^ Is 7:8
  51. ^ Ml 4:1
  52. ^ Is 5:24
  53. ^ Eze 24:21
  54. ^ Ps 31:14; Is 7:13; Mc 7:7
  55. ^ 2Ki 17:14; 2Ch 36:16; Je 25:3; Zc 1:4
  56. ^ De 28:64; Am 9:9

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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