Hosea 9:4-6

International Children’s Bible

⁴ The Israelites will not give offerings of wine to the Lord.
    Their sacrifices will not please him.
Their sacrifices will be like food that is eaten at a funeral.
    It is unclean, and everyone who eats it becomes unclean.
Their food will only satisfy their hunger.
    They cannot sacrifice it in the Temple.
⁵ What will you do then on the day of feasts
    and on the festival days of the Lord?
⁶ Even if the people are not destroyed,
    Egypt will take them as captives.
    They will be buried in Memphis.^[a]
Weeds will grow over their silver treasures.
    Thorns will grow over their houses.