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Hosea 9:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Hosea 9:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 9
Such Sacrifice Will Be Like Mourners’ Bread
1 Do not rejoice, O Israel!
Do not exult like the other nations!
For you have been unfaithful to your God;
you have loved the wages of a prostitute
upon every threshing floor.[a]
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[b]
and eat unclean food in Assyria.
Footnotes
- Hosea 9:1 Upon every threshing floor: a reference to harvest feasts in honor of the god Baal, to whom the Israelites had ascribed the fertility of the land (see Hos 2:7).
- 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.
