Husha (Hosea) — 9

Husha Announces Yashar'AL’s Punishment

1 O people of Yashar'AL, do not rejoice as other nations do, for you have been unfaithful to your 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH, hiring yourselves out like prostitutes, worshiping idols on every threshing floor.

2 So now your harvests will be too small to feed you, there will be no grapes for making new wine.

3 You may no longer stay here in 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH’s land, Instead, you will return to Mitzraym, and in Assyria you will eat food that is ceremonially unclean.

4 There you will make no offerings of wine to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, None of your sacrifices there will please 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, they will be unclean, like food touched by a person in mourning, All who present such sacrifices will be defiled, they may eat this food themselves, but they may not offer it to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH.

5 What then will you do on festival days?    How will you observe 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH’s festivals?

6 Even if you escape destruction from Assyria, Mitzraym will conquer you, and Mamphis will bury you. Nettles will take over your treasures of silver; thistles will invade your ruined homes.

7 The time of Yashar'AL’s punishment has come; the day of payment is here, Soon Yashar'AL will know this all too well, Because of your great sin and hostility, you say, “The Nabyms are crazy and the inspired men are fools!”

8 The Nabym is a watchman over Yashar'AL for my 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH, yet traps are laid for him wherever he goes, He faces hostility even in the house of 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH.

9 The things my people do are as depraved as what they did in Gibaah long ago, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH will not forget,  𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH will surely punish them for their sins.

10 For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Dabar, “O Yashar'AL, when I first found you, it was like finding fresh grapes in the desert, when I saw your ancestors, it was like seeing the first ripe figs of the season, but then they deserted me for Baal-paur, giving themselves to that shameful idol, soon they became vile, as vile as the idols they worshiped.

11 The kaby of Yashar'AL will fly away like a bird, for your children will not be bornor grow in the womb or even be conceived.

12 Even if you do have children who grow up, I will take them from you, it will be a terrible day when I turn away and leave you alone.

13 I have watched Yashar'AL become as beautiful as Tyra, But now Yashar'AL will bring out her children for slaughter.”

14 O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, what should I request for your people? I will ask for wombs that do not give birth and breasts that give no milk.

15 Then 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Dabar, “All their wickedness began at Gilgal; there I began to hate them, I will drive them from my land because of their evil actions, I will love them no more because all their leaders are rebels.

16 The people of Yashar'AL are struck down. Their roots are dried up, and they will bear no more fruit, and if they give birth, I will slaughter their beloved children.”

17 My 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH will reject the people of Yashar'AL because they will not listen or obey, they will be wanderers, homeless among the nations.