The Coming Exile

Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly as the nations do,(A)
for you have acted promiscuously,(B) leaving your God.
You love the wages of a prostitute
on every grain-threshing floor.(C)
Threshing floor and wine vat will not sustain them,(D)
and the new wine will fail them.

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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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