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    Threshing floor and wine vat will not feed them,
and new wine will fail her.[a]
    They will not remain
        in the land of Yahweh.
But Ephraim will return to Egypt,
    and in Assyria they will eat unclean food.
They will not pour drink offerings of wine to Yahweh,
    and their sacrifices will not please him.
They are like mourners’ bread for them;
    all those who eat it will be defiled.
For their bread will be for their hunger;[b]
    it will not come to the house of Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:2 That is, Israel
  2. Hosea 9:4 Literally “for their soul”