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Hosea 9:2-4
New Catholic Bible
Hosea 9:2-4
New Catholic Bible
2 Threshing floors and winepresses will not feed them,
and the new wine will fail them.
3 They will not remain in the land of the Lord;
Ephraim will return to Egypt[a]
and eat unclean food in Assyria.
4 No longer will they pour libations of wine to the Lord,
nor will their sacrifices please him.
To them such sacrifice will be like mourners’ bread
that defiles all who eat of it.
Whatever food they have will be for them alone;
it cannot enter the house of the Lord.
Footnotes
- Hosea 9:3 Ephraim . . . Egypt: Ephraim will be enslaved in Assyria as it once was in Egypt. In exile, in a country controlled by idols, everything is unclean; thus it is not possible even to offer sacrifices to the Lord.
