Text -- Hosea 9:1-5 (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.

Assyrian Exile Will Reverse the Egyptian Exodus

9:3 They will not remain in the Lord’s land. Ephraim will return to Egypt; they will eat ritually unclean food in Assyria. 9:4 They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the Lord; they will not please him with their sacrifices. Their sacrifices will be like bread eaten while in mourning; all those who eat them will make themselves ritually unclean. For their bread will be only to satisfy their appetite; it will not come into the temple of the Lord. 9:5 So what will you do on the festival day, on the festival days of the Lord?

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).