Hosea 9:1

Israel’s Punishment · Hosea 9:1–17
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Translations

Modern
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.
Traditional
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.
Literal
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.
Latin
Noli lætari, Israël; noli exsultare sicut populi: quia fornicatus es a Deo tuo; dilexisti mercedem super omnes areas tritici.

Original

Hebrew
English
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.

Notes

  • Do not rejoice: This likely refers to the Feast of Tabernacles, when Israel celebrated the year's final harvest. God ordained this festival (Deuteronomy 16:13–15), but the Israelites turned it into a wild pagan celebration, acting like other nations.

  • you have played the harlot (literally you have loved a prostitute’s pay): The Israelites mistakenly believed their grain and wine were rewards for worshiping the Canaanite fertility god.

Events

People

Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes

Glossary

Hosea, Book of

Topics

Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of Captivity, Famine, and Judgments Threshing: The Place For: Called the Corn-Floor Worldliness: General Scriptures Concerning