Hosea 9:1-8 (New Revised Standard)
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1
Do not rejoice, O Israel! Do not exult a as other nations do; for you have played the whore, departing from your God. You have loved a prostitute's pay on all threshing floors.
2
Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them.
3
They shall not remain in the land of the Lord; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and in Assyria they shall eat unclean food.
4
They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the Lord, and their sacrifices shall not please him. Such sacrifices shall be like mourners' bread; all who eat of it shall be defiled; for their bread shall be for their hunger only; it shall not come to the house of the Lord.
5
What will you do on the day of appointed festival, and on the day of the festival of the Lord?
6
For even if they escape destruction, Egypt shall gather them, Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver; b thorns shall be in their tents.
7
The days of punishment have come, the days of recompense have come; Israel cries, c "The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is mad!" Because of your great iniquity, your hostility is great.
8
The prophet is a sentinel for my God over Ephraim, yet a fowler's snare is on all his ways, and hostility in the house of his God.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New Revised Standard Bible Version Online)
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