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They will not pour libations of wine to the Lord,
    and their sacrifices will not please him.
Their bread will be like mourners’ bread,[a](A)
    that makes unclean all who eat of it;
Their food will be for their own appetites;
    it cannot enter the house of the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 9:4 Mourners’ bread: bread eaten at funeral rites (Dt 26:14). The presence of a corpse also made all food prepared in that house unclean (Jer 16:5–7).

They will not pour out wine offerings(A) to the Lord,
    nor will their sacrifices please(B) him.
Such sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;(C)
    all who eat them will be unclean.(D)
This food will be for themselves;
    it will not come into the temple of the Lord.(E)

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