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Hosea 9:12 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them! "

Hosea 9:12

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10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.

11 As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.

12 Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!

13 I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.

14 Give them—LORD what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

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Hosea 9:1

"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."

Hosea 9:2

"The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them, and the new wine will fail her."

Hosea 9:3

"They won’t dwell in the LORD’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria."

Hosea 9:4

"They won’t pour out wine offerings to the LORD, neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted; for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into the LORD’s house."

Hosea 9:5

"What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?"

Hosea 9:6

"For, behold, when they flee destruction, Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents."

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