Hosea 9:1-3

Good News Translation

Hosea Announces Punishment for Israel

9 People of Israel, stop celebrating your festivals like pagans. You have turned away from your God and have been unfaithful to him. All over the land you have sold yourselves like prostitutes to the god Baal and have loved the grain you thought he paid you with! ² But soon you will not have enough grain and olive oil, and there will be no wine. ³ The people of Israel will not remain in the Lord's land, but will have to go back to Egypt and will have to eat forbidden food^[a] in Assyria.