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1 Thou shalt not rejoice, O Israel; exult not as the peoples: for thou didst commit fornication from thy God; thou didst love a gift upon all the threshing-floors of grain. 2 The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. 3 They shall not dwell in the land of Jehovah; and Ephraim turned back to Egypt, and in Assur they shall eat the unclean thing. 4 They shall not pour out wine to Jehovah, and they shall not be pleasant to him: their sacrifices as the bread of sorrows to them; all eating it shall be defiled: for their bread for their soul shall not come in to the house of Jehovah. 5 What will ye do for the day of appointment, and for the day of the festival of Jehovah? 6 For behold, they went from destruction: Egypt shall gather them together; Memphis shall bury them: the desire for their silver, the prickly weed shall possess them: the thorn in their tents. 7 The days of oversight came, the days of recompense came; Israel knew: the prophet is foolish, the man of the spirit, raving, for the multitude of thine iniquity and great destruction. 8 The watchman of Ephraim with God: the prophet the snare of a fowler upon all his ways; destruction in the house of his God. 9 They made deep, they were corrupted as the days of the hill: he will remember their iniquity, he will review their sins. Hosea 9:1-9, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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