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They will not pour drink offerings of wine to Yahweh,
    and their sacrifices will not please him.
They are like mourners’ bread for them;
    all those who eat it will be defiled.
For their bread will be for their hunger;[a]
    it will not come to the house of Yahweh.
What will you do on the day of the appointed time,
    and on the day of the festival of Yahweh?
For look! If they flee from the destruction,
    Egypt will gather them;
    Memphis[b] will bury them.
Nettles will possess
    their precious things of silver;
        thorns will be in their tents.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:4 Literally “for their soul”
  2. Hosea 9:6 Hebrew “Noph”