World English Bible
Hosea 9:3
“They won't dwell in Yahweh's land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.”
Verse in context — Hosea 9
Don't rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
The threshing floor and the winepress won't feed them, and the new wine will fail her.
They won't dwell in Yahweh's land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
They won't pour out wine offerings to Yahweh, neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted; for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into the house of Yahweh.
What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of Yahweh?
About Hosea
God’s steadfast love for His unfaithful people, symbolized through Hosea’s marriage.
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