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They won’t present wine offerings to the Lord,
    nor will they please him.
Their sacrifices will seem like food for mourners—
    everyone who eats them will become unclean;
        none of them will enter the Temple of the Lord.

“What will you do on the designated holiday,
    when the Lord’s festival comes?
Look! They have gone away because of the destruction—
    Egypt will gather them up,
        and Memphis[a] will bury them.
Weeds will overgrow their inheritance,[b]
    and thorns will grow[c] in their tents.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:6 So LXX. Heb. Moph; i.e. the capital of Lower Egypt
  2. Hosea 9:6 Lit. their precious silver
  3. Hosea 9:6 Lit. be