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Hosea 9:3-5
New International Reader's Version
Hosea 9:3-5
New International Reader's Version
3 You won’t remain in the Lord’s land.
Ephraim, you will return to Egypt.
You will eat “unclean” food in Assyria.
4 You won’t pour out wine offerings to the Lord.
Your sacrifices won’t please him.
They’ll be like the bread people eat when someone dies.
Everyone who eats those sacrifices will be “unclean.”
They themselves will have to eat that kind of food.
They can’t bring it into the Lord’s temple.
5 What will you do when your appointed feasts come?
What will you do on the Lord’s special days?
Hosea 9:3-5
New International Version
Hosea 9:3-5
New International Version
3 They will not remain(A) in the Lord’s land;
Ephraim will return to Egypt(B)
and eat unclean food in Assyria.(C)
4 They will not pour out wine offerings(D) to the Lord,
nor will their sacrifices please(E) him.
Such sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;(F)
all who eat them will be unclean.(G)
This food will be for themselves;
it will not come into the temple of the Lord.(H)
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