Hosea 9:2-4

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them,
    and the new wine shall fail them.
³They shall not remain in the land of the Lord;
    but Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
    and in Assyria they shall eat unclean food.

⁴They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the Lord,
    and their sacrifices shall not please him.
Such sacrifices shall be like mourners’ bread;
    all who eat of it shall be defiled;
for their bread shall be for their hunger only;
    it shall not come to the house of the Lord.

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