Text -- Hosea 9:1-2 (NET)

Fertility Cult Festivals Have Intoxicated Israel

9:1 O Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly like the nations, for you are unfaithful to your God. You love to receive a prostitute's wages on all the floors where you thresh your grain. 9:2 Threshing floors and wine vats will not feed the people, and new wine only deceives them.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Hos 9:1

¹ tn Heb “do not rejoice unto jubilation”; KJV “Rejoice not…for joy”; NASB “Do not rejoice…with exultation.”

² tn Heb “you have committed adultery”; NRSV “you have played the whore.”

³ tn Heb “you love the wages of the prostitute” (NIV similar); NAB “loving a harlot’s hire.”

NET Notes: Hos 9:2

¹ tn Heb “them”; the referent (the people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “her” (so KJV, ASV). This is taken as a collective singular (so also most modern English versions).