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Hosea Announces Israel’s Punishment

O people of Israel,
    do not rejoice as other nations do.
For you have been unfaithful to your God,
    hiring yourselves out like prostitutes,
    worshiping other gods on every threshing floor.
So now your harvests will be too small to feed you.
    There will be no grapes for making new wine.

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Ephraim Faces Punishment

Do not rejoice, O Israel,
do not exult like the nations!
For you played the whore, departing from your God;
    you loved a harlot’s wage
on all the threshing floors of grain.
    Threshing floor and wine vat will not feed them,
and new wine will fail her.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:2 That is, Israel