Hosea 9:1-3

Contemporary English Version

Israel Will Be Punished

9 Israel, don't celebrate
or make noisy shouts^[a]
    like other nations.
You have been unfaithful
    to your God.
Wherever grain is threshed,
    you behave like prostitutes
because you enjoy
    the money you receive.^[b]
²But you will run short
    of grain and wine,
³and you will have to leave
    the land of the Lord.
Some of you will go to Egypt;
others will go to Assyria
    and eat unclean food.

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Footnotes

9.1 or … shouts: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
9.1 Wherever … receive: Grain was threshed on hills or other places where the wind could blow away the husks. People also met at these places to worship Baal, the god they thought had given them the grain harvest.