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  "metadata": {
    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "hosea",
    "chapter": 9
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 9,
    "bookSlug": "hosea",
    "bookCode": "HOS",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "HOS-9:1",
        "verseRef": "HOS.9.1",
        "text": "Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations;\nfor you were unfaithful to your God.\nYou love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "HOS-9:2",
        "verseRef": "HOS.9.2",
        "text": "The threshing floor and the wine press won’t feed them,\nand the new wine will fail her."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "HOS-9:3",
        "verseRef": "HOS.9.3",
        "text": "They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land;\nbut Ephraim will return to Egypt,\nand they will eat unclean food in Assyria."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "HOS-9:4",
        "verseRef": "HOS.9.4",
        "text": "They won’t pour out wine offerings to Yahweh,\nneither will they be pleasing to him.\nTheir sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;\nall who eat of it will be polluted;\nfor their bread will be for their appetite.\nIt will not come into Yahweh’s house."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "HOS-9:5",
        "verseRef": "HOS.9.5",
        "text": "What will you do in the day of solemn assembly,\nand in the day of the feast of Yahweh?"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "HOS-9:6",
        "verseRef": "HOS.9.6",
        "text": "For, behold, they have gone away from destruction.\nEgypt will gather them up.\nMemphis will bury them.\nNettles will possess their pleasant things of silver.\nThorns will be in their tents."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "HOS-9:7",
        "verseRef": "HOS.9.7",
        "text": "The days of visitation have come.\nThe days of reckoning have come.\nIsrael will consider the prophet to be a fool,\nand the man who is inspired to be insane,\nbecause of the abundance of your sins,\nand because your hostility is great."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "HOS-9:8",
        "verseRef": "HOS.9.8",
        "text": "A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God.\nA fowler’s snare is on all of his paths,\nand hostility in the house of his God."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "HOS-9:9",
        "verseRef": "HOS.9.9",
        "text": "They have deeply corrupted themselves,\nas in the days of Gibeah.\nHe will remember their iniquity.\nHe will punish them for their sins."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "HOS-9:10",
        "verseRef": "HOS.9.10",
        "text": "I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness.\nI saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season;\nbut they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing,\nand became abominable like that which they loved."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "HOS-9:11",
        "verseRef": "HOS.9.11",
        "text": "As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird.\nThere will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "HOS-9:12",
        "verseRef": "HOS.9.12",
        "text": "Though they bring up their children,\nyet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left.\nIndeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "HOS-9:13",
        "verseRef": "HOS.9.13",
        "text": "I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place;\nbut Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "HOS-9:14",
        "verseRef": "HOS.9.14",
        "text": "Give them—Yahweh what will you give?\nGive them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "HOS-9:15",
        "verseRef": "HOS.9.15",
        "text": "“All their wickedness is in Gilgal;\nfor there I hated them.\nBecause of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house!\nI will love them no more.\nAll their princes are rebels."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "HOS-9:16",
        "verseRef": "HOS.9.16",
        "text": "Ephraim is struck.\nTheir root has dried up.\nThey will bear no fruit.\nEven though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.”"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "HOS-9:17",
        "verseRef": "HOS.9.17",
        "text": "My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him;\nand they will be wanderers among the nations."
      }
    ]
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