Hosea 9:1
Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.
2 The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.
3 They will not remain in the land of the LORD; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
- ASV
- Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, like the peoples; for thou hast played the harlot, [departing] from thy God; thou hast loved hire upon every grain-floor.
- DARBY
- Rejoice not, Israel, exultingly, as the peoples; for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved harlot's hire upon every corn-floor.
- BLB
- Do not be glad, O Israel, with rejoicing, like peoples. For you have prostitute yourself against your God; you have made love [for] hire on all the floors of threshing.
- ÅB
- Gled deg ikke, Israel, og juble ikke, slik som folkene! For du har forlatt din Gud i hor; du har elsket horelønn på hvert sted hvor kornet treskes.
- OTB
- Gled deg ikke, Israel, med jubel som folkene!
For du har vært utro mot din Gud;
Du har elsket lønnen til en prostituert på hver treskeplass. - B1930
- Gled dig ikke, Israel, og juble ikke, likesom folkene! For du har forlatt din Gud i hor; du har elsket horelønn på hvert sted hvor kornet treskes.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hosea 10:5
The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn with its idolatrous priests— those who rejoiced in its glory— for it has been taken from them into exile.
Read in contextJeremiah 44:17
Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.
Read in contextJames 4:16
As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.
Read in contextHosea 4:12
My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.
Read in contextIsaiah 17:11
though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout— yet the harvest will vanish on the day of disease and incurable pain.
Read in contextAmos 3:2
“Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”
Read in contextJames 5:1
Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
Read in contextLamentations 4:21
So rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass to you as well; you will get drunk and expose yourself.
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