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26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women will need but one oven for baking your bread, and they shall dole it out to you by weight;(A) and though you eat, you shall not be satisfied.

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26 When I cut off your supply of bread,(A) ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.

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10 They will eat but not be satisfied,(A)
    they will promote prostitution[a] but not increase,
Because they have abandoned the Lord,
    devoting themselves

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Footnotes

  1. 4:10–11 Prostitution: often a synonym for idolatry. The covenant bond was symbolized as the relationship between husband and wife (see chaps. 1–2). Thus, abandoning the Lord for a foreign god was called prostitution or adultery.

10 “They will eat but not have enough;(A)
    they will engage in prostitution(B) but not flourish,
because they have deserted(C) the Lord
    to give themselves

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