Hosea 9:1-2

Fertility Cult Festivals Have Intoxicated Israel

9:1 O Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly ¹  like the nations,

for you are unfaithful ²  to your God.

You love to receive a prostitute's wages ³ 

on all the floors where you thresh your grain.

9:2 Threshing floors and wine vats will not feed the people, ⁴ 

and new wine only deceives them. ⁵ 

[9:1]  ¹ tn Heb “do not rejoice unto jubilation”; KJV “Rejoice not…for joy”; NASB “Do not rejoice…with exultation.”

[9:1]  ² tn Heb “you have committed adultery”; NRSV “you have played the whore.”

[9:1]  ³ tn Heb “you love the wages of the prostitute” (NIV similar); NAB “loving a harlot’s hire.”

[9:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “them”; the referent (the people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “her” (so KJV, ASV). This is taken as a collective singular (so also most modern English versions).