The Book of Hosea! verse by verse...

[tred]

Hosea 8:5
5 Throw out your calf-idol, O Samaria! My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of purity?

 

[tred]

Hosea 8:6
6 They are from Israel! This calf - a craftsman has made it; it is not God. It will be broken in pieces, that calf of Samaria.

 

[tred]

Hosea 8:7
7 "They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no end; it will produce no flour. Were it to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it up.

 

[Joy]

Hosea 8:8
Israel is swallowed up;
Now they are among the Gentiles
Like a vessel in which there is no pleasure

 

[doc329]

Hosea 8:9 (KJV) For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

 

[Joy]

Hosea 8:10
Yes though they have hired among the nations
Now I will gather them
And they shall sorrow a little
Because of the burden of the king of princes.

 

[tred]

Hosea 8:11
11 "Though Ephraim built many altars for sin offerings, these have become altars for sinning.

 

[Joy]

Hosea 8:12
I have written for him the great things of My law
But they were considered a strange thing.

 

[Joy]

Hosea 8:13
For the sacrifices of My offerings
They sacrifice flesh and eat it.
But the Lord does not accept them.
Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins
They shall return to Egypt.

 

[tred]

Hosea 8:14
14 Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has fortified many towns. But I will send fire upon their cities that will consume their fortresses."

 

[tred]

Hosea 9:1
1 Do not rejoice, O 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.

 

[Vimi]

Hosea 9:2 (Amp)
2 The threshing floor and the winevat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them.

 

[Vimi]

Hosea 9:3 (Amp)
3 They shall not remain in the Lord's land, but Ephraim shall return to [another] Egypt and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

 

[tred]

Hosea 9:4
4 They 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.

 

[Vimi]

Hosea 9:5
5 What will you do in the appointed day, And in the day of the feast of the LORD?

 

[Vimi]

Hosea 9:6
6 For indeed they are gone because of destruction. Egypt shall gather them up; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their valuables of silver; Thorns shall be in their tents.

 

[Vimi]

Hosea 9:7
7 The days of punishment have come; The days of recompense have come. Israel knows! The prophet is a fool, The spiritual man is insane, Because of the greatness of your iniquity and great enmity.

 

[Vimi]

Hosea 9:8
8 The watchman of Ephraim is with my God; But the prophet is a fowler's snare in all his ways --- Enmity in the house of his God.

 

[Vimi]

Hosea 9:9
9 They are deeply corrupted, As in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity; He will punish their sins.

 

[Vimi]

Hosea 9:10
10 " I found Israel Like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers As the firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal Peor, And separated themselves to that shame; They became an abomination like the thing they loved.