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Hosea 9:1–6 – No more harvest joy

What happens: Israel must not rejoice like other nations because they have played the whore away from God. The grain and wine fail and do not sustain them. They will not dwell in the Lord’s land but go to Egypt and eat unclean food in exile. Their feasts end, and their offerings do not please the Lord.

What it means: God links worship with daily provision, and sin breaks both. He is holy and will not bless idolatry. Exile shows that life apart from God’s presence is loss and uncleanness.

Hosea 9:7–9 – Days of punishment and corrupt prophecy

What happens: The days of punishment arrive. The people think the prophet is a fool and the spiritual man is mad because of their great iniquity. Like in the days of Gibeah, deep corruption fills the land. God remembers their guilt and will punish their sins.

What it means: Hard hearts mock God’s warnings. God is just and remembers violence that society normalizes. Rejecting truth leaves a people without wise voices.

Hosea 9:10–13 – From delight to detestable

What happens: God found Israel like grapes in the wilderness and their fathers like early figs. But they came to Baal-peor and became vile. Ephraim’s glory flies away like a bird. Even if they have children, bereavement meets them, and the people face barrenness and loss.

What it means: God’s first love and favor heighten the tragedy of later betrayal. Idolatry steals fruitfulness. The Lord is faithful, but covenant blessings wither under persistent sin.

Hosea 9:14–17 – Withered root and casting off

What happens: Hosea prays about judgment, and God declares their root dries up. Even if they bear children, He will bereave them because they do not listen. God drives them out of His house and they wander among nations.

What it means: Refusing God’s voice brings severe discipline. God’s holiness protects His house, and He will not host rebellion. Yet the longing for mercy in the prayer shows that appeal to God is still the right instinct.

Application

  • Take God’s warnings seriously, even when culture laughs at them.
  • Guard your joy by guarding your worship.
  • Ask God to expose any “Baal-peor” in your life and cut it off.
  • When facing loss, seek God with honest prayer rather than hardening your heart.

Bible

1Rejoice 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.

2The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.

3They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

4They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.

5What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?

6For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.

7The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

8The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

11As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

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

13Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.

14Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

15All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.

16Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.

17My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

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