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O Israel, rejoice no more as others do, for you have deserted your God and sacrificed to other gods on every threshing floor.

Therefore your harvests will be small; your grapes will blight upon the vine.

You may no longer stay here in this land of God; you will be carried off to Egypt and Assyria and live there on scraps of food.

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Punishment for Israel

Do not rejoice, Israel;
    do not be jubilant(A) like the other nations.
For you have been unfaithful(B) to your God;
    you love the wages of a prostitute(C)
    at every threshing floor.
Threshing floors and winepresses will not feed the people;
    the new wine(D) will fail them.
They will not remain(E) in the Lord’s land;
    Ephraim will return to Egypt(F)
    and eat unclean food in Assyria.(G)

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