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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. There, far from home, you are not allowed to pour out wine for sacrifice to God. For no sacrifice that is offered there can please him; it is polluted, just as food of mourners is; all who eat such sacrifices are defiled. They may eat this food to feed themselves, but may not offer it to God.

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Threshing floors and winepresses will not feed the people;
    the new wine(A) will fail them.
They will not remain(B) in the Lord’s land;
    Ephraim will return to Egypt(C)
    and eat unclean food in Assyria.(D)
They will not pour out wine offerings(E) to the Lord,
    nor will their sacrifices please(F) him.
Such sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;(G)
    all who eat them will be unclean.(H)
This food will be for themselves;
    it will not come into the temple of the Lord.(I)

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