Hosea 9:1-3

GOD’S WORD Translation

9 Israel, don’t rejoice.
Don’t celebrate as other nations do.
You have been unfaithful to your God.
You have sold sex on every threshing floor.^[a]
²There won’t be enough grain to feed people.
There won’t be enough wine to go around.

³The people of Ephraim won’t stay in the Lord’s land.
They will return to Egypt,
and they will eat unclean ^[b] food in Assyria.

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Footnotes

9:1 A threshing floor is an outdoor area where grain is separated from its husks.
9:3 “Unclean ” refers to anything that Moses’ Teachings say is not presentable to God.