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Hosea 9:1-2
Contemporary English Version

Israel Will Be Punished

9 Israel, don't celebrate
or make noisy shouts[a]
    like other nations.
You have been unfaithful
    to your God.
Wherever grain is threshed,
    you behave like prostitutes
because you enjoy
    the money you receive.[b]
2 But you will run short
    of grain and wine,

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Footnotes

  1. 9.1 or … shouts: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
  2. 9.1 Wherever … receive: Grain was threshed on hills or other places where the wind could blow away the husks. People also met at these places to worship Baal, the god they thought had given them the grain harvest.
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Hosea 9:1-2
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Punishment for Israel

9 Do not rejoice, Israel;
    do not be jubilant(A) like the other nations.
For you have been unfaithful(B) to your God;
    you love the wages of a prostitute(C)
    at every threshing floor.
2 Threshing floors and winepresses will not feed the people;
    the new wine(D) will fail them.

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